fearful Copy link Outline I. Feeling fear1. mĕtuens (apprehensive of2. tĭmĭdus (habitually)3. păvĭdus (very f.)II. Causing fear1. fērālis, e2. dīrus • fearful: I. Feeling fear: 1. mĕtuens (apprehensive of: with gen.): content with little, and f. of the future, contentus parvo metuensque futuri, Hor.: f. of the rod, m. virgae, Juv.: the consuls, temperate men, and f. of (breaking) the laws, coss. modesti legumque m., Cic.: Nero, more f. for the future, surrounded himself with soldiers, N., metuentior in posterum, milites sibi circumdedit, Tac. 2. tĭmĭdus (habitually): the unwarlike and the f., imbelles t.que, Cic.: not f. of death, non t. ad mortem, Cic.: f. hope, t. spes, Ov.: rarely with gen.: f. of the storm, t. procellae, Hor.: v. timid. 3. păvĭdus (very f.): v. afraid, alarmed, panic-struck. II. Causing fear: 1. fērālis, e: the f. formulary (of devotion), f. carmen, Liv.: f. carnage, f. caedes, Ov. 2. dīrus: v. dreadful, terrible.
FEARFUL Copy link • FEARFULTimorous, timidus: pavidus: trepidus [SYN. in FEAR, s.] : formidinis plenus (full of fear and awe, Cic., Att., 9, 10, 2, instead of formidolosus, which does not belong to good prose): ignavus (cowardly; compare the substantives in FEAR): to be fearful, timidum, etc., esse (but not metuere or timere, absolutely): to become fearful, ad timorem se convertere: to make anybody fearful [Vid: “to put in FEAR”]: to pretend to be fearful, *metum (timorem), pavorem simulare: do not be fearful! omitte timorem! Dreadful, metuendus: timendus (that is to be feared): terribilis (terrible): horrendus (horrible): horribilis: formidolosus (producing awe or horror; formidabilis is foreign to good prose): trux, truculentus (dreadful to behold, to hear; e.g., eyes, look, words, etc.): immanis (monstrous): ingens (enormous): A fearful war, bellum formidolosum, atrox: to present or depict anything as fearful, ad timorem aliquid proponere (Cic., Fam., 2, 16, 4): as very fearful, ad maximum timorem proponere (ib. 6, 3, 3): to make or render one’s self more fearful than powerful, plus timoris quam potentiae sibi addere. Vid: also, DREADFUL.