Synonyms of the word

fearful

• adj. Frightening.
• adj. (now rare) Frightened, filled with terror.
• adj. Tending to fear.
• adj. (dated) Terrible; shockingly bad.

afraid

• adj. (usually used predicatively, not attributively) Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear.
• adj. (colloquial) regretful, sorry.

alarming

• v. present participle of alarm.
• adj. causing apprehension, fear or alarm; frightening.

awful

• adj. Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling, terrible.
• adj. (now rare) Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence or respect; profoundly impressive.
• adj. Struck or filled with awe.
• adj. (obsolete) Terror-stricken.
• adj. Worshipful; reverential; law-abiding.
• adj. Exceedingly great; usually applied intensively.
• adj. Very bad.
• adv. (colloquial, US, Canada) Very, extremely.

bad

• adj. Not good; unfavorable; negative.
• adj. Not suitable or fitting.
• adj. Seemingly non-appropriate, in manners, etc.
• adj. Unhealthy.
• adj. Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.
• adj. Evil; wicked.
• adj. Faulty; not functional.
• adj. (of food) Spoiled, rotten, overripe.
• adj. (of breath) Malodorous, foul.
• adj. (informal) Bold and daring.
• adj. (hip-hop slang) good, superlative.
• adj. (of a need or want) Severe, urgent.
• adv. (now colloquial) Badly.
• n. (slang) Error, mistake.
• n. (countable, uncountable, economics) An item (or kind of item) of merchandise with negative value; an unwanted…
• adj. (slang) Fantastic.
• v. (archaic) Alternative past tense of bid. See bade.
• v. (Britain, dialect, transitive) To shell (a walnut).

caitiff

• n. A base or despicable person; a wretch.
• n. (obsolete) A captive or prisoner, particularly a galley slave.
• n. (archaic) A villain, a coward or wretch.
• adj. Especially despicable; cowardly.

chicken

• n. (countable) A domestic fowl, Gallus gallus, especially when young.
• n. (uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
• n. (countable, slang) A coward.
• n. (countable, slang) A young or inexperienced person.
• n. (countable, gay slang) A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair; compare chickenhawk.
• n. The game of dare.
• adj. (informal) Cowardly.
• v. (intransitive) To avoid a situation one is afraid of.

chickenhearted

• adj. Alternative form of chicken-hearted.

cowardly

• adj. Showing cowardice; lacking in courage; basely or weakly fearful.
• adv. (archaic) In the manner of a coward, cowardlily.

craven

• adj. Unwilling to fight; lacking even the rudiments of courage; extremely cowardly.
• n. A coward.
• v. To make craven.

dastard

• n. A malicious coward; a dishonorable sneak.
• adj. Meanly shrinking from danger, cowardly, dastardly.
• v. To dastardize.

dastardly

• adj. in the manner of a dastard; marked by cowardice; pusillanimous.
• adj. treacherous; given to backstabbing.

dire

• adj. Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.
• adj. Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.
• adj. Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable.
• adj. (informal) Bad in quality, awful, terrible.

direful

• adj. Fearful, terrible.

dread

• v. (transitive) To fear greatly.
• v. To anticipate with fear.
• v. (intransitive) To be in dread, or great fear.
• v. (transitive) To style (the hair) into dreadlocks.
• n. Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
• n. Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
• n. Somebody or something dreaded.
• n. (obsolete) A person highly revered.
• n. (obsolete) Fury; dreadfulness.
• n. A Rastafarian.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) dreadlock.
• adj. Terrible; greatly feared.
• adj. (archaic) Awe-inspiring; held in fearful awe.

dreaded

• adj. Causing fear, dread or terror.
• adj. Wearing dreadlocks.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of dread.

dreadful

• adj. (obsolete) Full of dread, whether.
• adj. Full of something causing dread, whether.
• n. A shocker: a report of a crime written in a provokingly lurid style.
• n. A journal or broadsheet printing such reports.
• n. A shocking or sensational crime.

faint

• adj. (of a being) Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to lose consciousness.
• adj. Lacking courage, spirit, or energy; cowardly; dejected.
• adj. hardly perceptible; not bright, or loud, or sharp.
• adj. Performed, done, or acted, weakly; not exhibiting vigor, strength, or energy.
• adj. Slight; minimal.
• n. The act of fainting, syncope.
• n. (rare) The state of one who has fainted; a swoon.
• v. (intransitive) To lose consciousness. Caused by a lack of oxygen or nutrients to the brain, usually as…
• v. To sink into dejection; to lose courage or spirit; to become depressed or despondent.
• v. To decay; to disappear; to vanish.

faint-hearted

• adj. Lacking courage; timid.

fainthearted

• adj. Faint of heart; irresolute; fearful.

fearsome

• adj. frightening, especially in appearance.
• adj. (rare or archaic) fearful, frightened.

frightening

• adj. Causing fear; of capable of causing fear; scary.
• adj. (figuratively) Awful, terrible, very bad.
• v. present participle of frighten.

frightful

• adj. (obsolete) Full of fright, whether.
• adj. Full of something causing fright, whether.

funky

• adj. (US, slang) Offbeat, unconventional or eccentric.
• adj. (US, slang) Not quite right; of questionable quality; not appropriate to the context.
• adj. (slang, Britain, US) Cool; great; excellent.
• adj. Having or relating to the smell of funk.
• adj. (music) Relating to or reminiscent of various genres of African American music, especially funk.
• adj. (Britain, slang, dated) Relating to, or characterized by, great fear, or funking.

horrendous

• adj. Extremely bad; awful; terrible.

horrific

• adj. Horrifying, causing horror; horrible.

ignoble

• adj. Not noble; plebeian; common.
• adj. Not honorable; base.
• adj. Not a true or "noble" falcon; said of certain hawks, such as the goshawk.

lily-livered

• adj. (idiomatic) Cowardly, lacking bravery.

poltroon

• n. An ignoble or total coward; a dastard; a mean-spirited wretch.
• adj. Cowardly.

pusillanimous

• adj. Showing ignoble cowardice, or contemptible timidity.

recreant

• adj. (now rare, poetic) Having admitted defeat and surrendered; defeated.
• adj. (now poetic, literary) Unfaithful to someone, or to one's duties or honour; disloyal, false.
• n. Somebody who is recreant, who yields in combat; a coward.

terrible

• adj. Dreadful; causing alarm and fear.
• adj. Formidable, powerful.
• adj. Intense; extreme in degree or extent.
• adj. Unpleasant; disagreeable.
• adj. Very bad; lousy.

timid

• adj. Lacking in courage or confidence.

timorous

• adj. fearful, afraid, timid.

trepid

• adj. timid, timorous, fearful.

unmanly

• adj. (of a person) Showing characteristics that are not manly, such as being immature, effeminate or cowardly,…
• adj. Of or pertaining to something not human.
• adj. (of a behaviour or action) Cowardly, base.
• adj. (of a behaviour or action) Not acceptable of a man.
• adj. (of a behaviour or action) Not becoming of a man.
• adv. In a manner that is unmanly.

white-livered

• adj. Archaic form of lily-livered.

yellow

• adj. Having yellow as its colour.
• adj. (informal) Lacking courage.
• adj. (publishing, journalism) Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy.
• adj. (chiefly derogatory, offensive) Far East Asian (relating to Asian people).
• adj. (dated, Australia, offensive) Of mixed Aboriginal and Caucasian ancestry.
• adj. (dated, US) High yellow.
• adj. (Britain, politics) Related to the Liberal Democrats.
• adj. (politics) Related to the Free Democratic Party of Germany.
• n. The colour of gold, butter, or a lemon; the colour obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting…
• n. (US) The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, the illumination of which indicates that…
• n. (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points.
• n. (pocket billiards) One of two groups of object balls, or a ball from that group, as used in the principally…
• n. (sports) A yellow card.
• v. (intransitive) To become yellow or more yellow.
• v. (transitive) To make (something) yellow or more yellow.

yellow-bellied

• adj. Of an animal or reptile having a yellow underside or belly.
• adj. (figuratively) Uncourageous, cowardly.