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Fearful vs Nerveless - What's the difference?

fearful | nerveless |

As adjectives the difference between fearful and nerveless

is that fearful is frightening while nerveless is lacking nerve: fearful; cowardly.

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

    nerveless

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Lacking nerve: fearful; cowardly.
  • (biology) Lacking a nervous system.
  • Devoid of nerves: calm, controlled, cool under pressure.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=June 28 , author=Jamie Jackson , title=Wimbledon 2012: Lukas Rosol shocked by miracle win over Rafael Nadal , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=There was no distracting Rosol's ice-calm as he killed the fifth set and match. Ace, cross-court forehand winner, ace, forehand winner – a blistering eighth game took him to 5-3 and informed Nadal precisely how nerveless the Czech was.}}

    Derived terms

    * nervelessness English contranyms