Harrowing vs Fearful - What's the difference?
harrowing | fearful | Related terms |
Causing pain or distress.
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Frightening.
Frightened, filled with terror.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
Terrible.
Tending to fear.
Harrowing is a related term of fearful.
As adjectives the difference between harrowing and fearful
is that harrowing is causing pain or distress while fearful is frightening.As a verb harrowing
is .As a noun harrowing
is the process of breaking up earth with a harrow.harrowing
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- Harrowing journeys down the dark roads of anger, violence, and madness
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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