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fearful (adj.)
mid-14c., "causing fear," from
fear
(n.) +
-ful
. Meaning "full of fear, timid" (now less common) also is from mid-14c. As a mere emphatic, from 1630s. Related:
Fearfully
;
fearfulness
.
