Fearful vs Shameful - What's the difference?
fearful | shameful |
Frightening.
Frightened, filled with terror.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
Terrible.
Tending to fear.
As adjectives the difference between fearful and shameful
is that fearful is frightening while shameful is causing or meriting shame or disgrace; disgraceful.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