I was rather fearful about what I had done when the supervisor entered the room.
Ron was fearful if the giant spider with the giant fangs creeping towards him
I was fearful of flying because I thought the plane would crash, but the flight turned out fine.
(It is correctly spelt "fearful".)Sarah had always been fearful of the dark.The small village had fearfully slum conditions.
She was very pliable to her parents because she was fearful of what would happen to her if she did not do what they commanded.
more fearful, most fearful
(Fearful is "full of fear" - scared, afraid - but has acquired the meanings "causing fear" and also "dreadful." Note that because fear is an attributed emotion, saying "the monster was fearful" would be ambiguous - is the monster scared or is it instilling fear?)"In the aftermath of the cave-in, the trapped miners were fearful, anticipating that they might not be rescued.""There was a fearful crashing sound, and the roof suddenly collapsed.""After one more fearful glance over his shoulder, he jumped from the cliff into the ocean.""The homeless family was living in fearful poverty, in a makeshift shelter of corrugated metal."
it's when you fear something you run or hide or scearm
Something you are afraid of makes you fearful.
Dad's insensate rage made us fearful so my siblings and I went to a friend's house to spend the night.
Fearful Owl was created in 1901.
Her Fearful Symmetry was created in 2009.