Fearful vs Chicken-hearted - What's the difference?
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Frightening.
Frightened, filled with terror.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
Terrible.
Tending to fear.
not brave; lacking courage; cowardly
Fearful is a related term of chicken-hearted.
As adjectives the difference between fearful and chicken-hearted
is that fearful is frightening while chicken-hearted is not brave; lacking courage; cowardly.fearful
English
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
* *chicken-hearted
English
Adjective
- These chicken-hearted bosses always seem to give in at the first sign of a strike.