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Fearful vs Alarmed - What's the difference?

fearful | alarmed |

As adjectives the difference between fearful and alarmed

is that fearful is frightening while alarmed is having an alarm fitted.

As a verb alarmed is

(alarm).

fearful

English

Alternative forms

* fearefull (obsolete) * fearfull (obsolete)

Adjective

(fearfuller)
  • Frightening.
  • Frightened, filled with terror.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
    • Those two great champions did attonce pursew / The fearefull damzell with incessant payns [...].
  • Terrible.
  • Tending to fear.
    • fearful boy

    Synonyms

    * (frightened) frightened, timid, timorous * See also

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    alarmed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (alarm)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Having an alarm fitted.
    • This door is alarmed .
  • Worried; anxious; panicky.
    • I'm extremely alarmed about the army outside my house.