Fearful vs Disturbed - What's the difference?
fearful | disturbed | Related terms |
Frightening.
Frightened, filled with terror.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
Terrible.
Tending to fear.
Showing symptoms of mental illness, severe psychosis, or neurosis.
Extremely surprised; shocked.
(disturb)
Fearful is a related term of disturbed.
As adjectives the difference between fearful and disturbed
is that fearful is frightening while disturbed is showing symptoms of mental illness, severe psychosis, or neurosis.As a verb disturbed is
(disturb).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