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  • Awful — Aw ful, a. 1. Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an awful scene. The hour of Nature s awful throes. Hemans. [1913 Webster] 2. Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence, or with fear and admiration; fitted to inspire… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Fear Itself (comics) — Fear Itself Promotional image by Stuart Immonen. Publisher Marvel Comics Publication date April – October 2011 …   Wikipedia

  • Fear appeals — are uniquely different than the rhetorical appeal to fear. There has been nearly 50 years of research on fear appeals in various disciplines and these studies have collectively garnered mixed results (for an overview, see Ruiter, Abraham, Kok,… …   Wikipedia

  • Fear — Fear, n. [OE. fer, feer, fere, AS. f[=ae]r a coming suddenly upon, fear, danger; akin to D. vaar, OHG. f[=a]ra danger, G. gefahr, Icel. f[=a]r harm, mischief, plague, and to E. fare, peril. See {Fare}.] 1. A painful emotion or passion excited by… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • awful — [ô′fəl] adj. [ME awful, agheful: see AWE & FUL] 1. inspiring awe; highly impressive 2. causing fear; terrifying 3. dreadful; appalling 4. full of awe; reverential 5. very bad, ugly, unpleasant, etc …   English World dictionary

  • fear — n 1 Fear, dread, fright, alarm, dismay, consternation, panic, terror, horror, trepidation denote the distressing or disordering agitation which overcomes one in the anticipation or in the presence of danger. Fear is the most general term; like… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • fear´ful|ness — fear|ful «FIHR fuhl», adjective. 1. causing fear; terrible; dreadful: »a fearful explosion, a fearful dragon. At midnight s fearful hour (Samuel Rogers). SYNONYM(S): awful, frightful, horrible. 2. a) feeling fear; frightened: »fearful of the dark …   Useful english dictionary

  • fear´ful|ly — fear|ful «FIHR fuhl», adjective. 1. causing fear; terrible; dreadful: »a fearful explosion, a fearful dragon. At midnight s fearful hour (Samuel Rogers). SYNONYM(S): awful, frightful, horrible. 2. a) feeling fear; frightened: »fearful of the dark …   Useful english dictionary

  • fear|ful — «FIHR fuhl», adjective. 1. causing fear; terrible; dreadful: »a fearful explosion, a fearful dragon. At midnight s fearful hour (Samuel Rogers). SYNONYM(S): awful, frightful, horrible. 2. a) feeling fear; frightened: »fearful of the dark …   Useful english dictionary

  • awful — (adj.) c.1300, agheful worthy of respect or fear, from aghe, an earlier form of AWE (Cf. awe), + FUL (Cf. ful). Replaced O.E. egefull. Weakened sense very bad is from 1809; weakened sense of exceedingly is by 1818 …   Etymology dictionary

  • awful — awfulness, n. /aw feuhl/, adj. 1. extremely bad; unpleasant; ugly: awful paintings; an awful job. 2. inspiring fear; dreadful; terrible: an awful noise. 3. solemnly impressive; inspiring awe: the awful majesty of alpine peaks. 4. full of awe;… …   Universalium

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