fearsome
fearsome
Definition
fear·some (fir′səm)
adjective
- causing fear; dreadful; horrible
- Now Rare frightened; timid
fear′·somely adverb
fear′·some·ness noun
fearsome
Usage Examples
Infinitive complement
- behold: They are described as being fearsome to behold sharp, yellowing teeth.
Modifies a noun
- reputation: Despite the fearsome reputations of lions, they rarely kill humans.
- dragon: The British poster offers a scene of St George wielding a sword against a fearsome dragon, without the shedding of any blood.
- warrior: Then the cup was handed over by a fearsome warrior.
- foe: Some terrible fearsome foe he turned out to be, eh?
- beast: He then called on the fearsome beast to appear.
- predator: The walls of our casita were adorned with jaguar masks; these big cats, native to the rainforest, are fearsome predators.
Modifying Another Word
- pretty: A horned Moses completes the picture at the other end, also looking pretty fearsome.
- so: The fells are not so fearsome but are just as dramatic.
- truly: If this was Kasparov exhausted, Kasparov energized would be a truly fearsome prospect.
- rather: I've arrived at the rather fearsome looking crags at the southwestern edge of Narnain's summit dome.
- fairly: They can also be used to deposit coatings and do fairly fearsome things to surfaces.
- very: They may make up a very small but very fearsome element of the waterbird community at our universities.
Used with adjective complement
- look: At first glance two pieces of wood strung together by a length of cord, may not look too fearsome a weapon.
- become: The tree diagram for this situation is beginning to become rather fearsome.
- seem: And using it regularly makes it seem much less fearsome than it was the first time I tried to use it.
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