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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fearsome \Fear"some\ (f[=e]r"s[u^]m) a.
1. Frightful; causing fear. [Scotch] ''This fearsome wind.'' --Sir W. Scott
2. Easily frightened; timid; timorous. ''A silly fearsome thing.'' --B. Taylor
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
fearsome
adjective: causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse" [syn: {awful}, {dire}, {direful}, {dread(a)}, {dreaded}, {dreadful}, {fearful}, {frightening}, {horrendous}, {horrific}, {terrible}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
51 Moby Thesaurus words for "fearsome": alarming, appalling, awe-inspiring, awesome, awing, bashful, chilling, cowardly, daunting, deterrent, deterring, diffident, disconcerting, discouraging, disheartening, dismaying, disquieting, dreadful, fear-inspiring, fearful, fearing, formidable, frightening, frightful, goosy, in fear, intimidating, jumpy, menacing, mousy, nervous, overawing, rabbity, scaring, scary, shaky, shivery, shrinking, shy, skittery, skittish, startling, startlish, terrible, terrifying, timid, timorous, trembling, tremulous, trepidant, trigger-happy
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