Englishfearful
adjective
1 they are fearful of being overheard by the enemy:
afraid, frightened, scared, scared stiff, scared to death, terrified, petrified;
alarmed, panicky, nervous, tense, apprehensive, uneasy, hesitant, disquieted, worried, worried sick, anxious;
British nervy;
informal jittery, jumpy, in a (blue) funk;
dialect frit;
archaic afeared, affrighted.
2 the guards were ill trained and fearful:
nervous, trembling, quaking, quivering, shrinking, cowering, cowed, daunted;
timid, timorous, diffident, faint-hearted, cowardly, pusillanimous;
British nervy;
informal jittery, jumpy, twitchy, keyed up, yellow, chicken, in a cold sweat, a bundle of nerves, like a cat on a hot tin roof, frightened of one's own shadow;
British, informal having kittens, like a cat on hot bricks, windy, stressy;
North American, informal spooked, spooky, antsy;
dated overstrung, unquiet.
3 there has been a fearful accident:
terrible, dreadful, awful, appalling, frightful, ghastly, horrific, horrible, horrifying, horrendous, very bad, terribly bad, shocking, atrocious, abominable, hideous, monstrous, dire, grim, unspeakable, gruesome, grievous, lamentable, distressing, harrowing, alarming.
▷antonyms minor.