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Fearing vs Fearful - What's the difference?

fearing | fearful |

As adjectives the difference between fearing and fearful

is that fearing is exhibiting fear while fearful is frightening.

As a verb fearing

is present participle of lang=en.

fearing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Exhibiting fear.
  • Showing profound respect or deference.

    • Derived terms

    * god-fearing

    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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