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Fearful vs Raging - What's the difference?

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Fearful is a related term of raging.


As adjectives the difference between fearful and raging

is that fearful is frightening while raging is volatile, very active or unpredictable.

As a verb raging is

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As a noun raging is

a display of rage.

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

    raging

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • *
  • *:Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging . No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Volatile, very active or unpredictable.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A display of rage.
  • *
  • To quell the ragings of his Father's ire, / And save a guilty world from quenchless fire!