Fearful vs Afraid - What's the difference?
fearful | afraid | Synonyms |
Frightening.
Frightened, filled with terror.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
Terrible.
Tending to fear.
Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear.
(colloquial) regretful, sorry
Afraid is a synonym of fearful.
As adjectives the difference between fearful and afraid
is that fearful is frightening while afraid is impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear.fearful
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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
Synonyms
* (frightened) frightened, timid, timorous * See alsoExternal links
* *afraid
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Adjective
(en adjective)- He is afraid of death.
- He is afraid to die.
- He is afraid that he will die.
- I am afraid I can not help you in this matter .