Disastrous vs Fearful - What's the difference?
disastrous | fearful | Related terms |
Frightening.
Frightened, filled with terror.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
Terrible.
Tending to fear.
Disastrous is a related term of fearful.
As adjectives the difference between disastrous and fearful
is that disastrous is of the nature of a disaster; calamitous while fearful is frightening.disastrous
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Synonyms
* (calamitous) cataclysmic, catastrophic * (ill-omened) ill-boding, , sinisterDerived terms
* disastrouslyfearful
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Alternative forms
* fearefull (obsolete) * fearfull (obsolete)Adjective
(fearfuller)- Those two great champions did attonce pursew / The fearefull damzell with incessant payns [...].
- fearful boy