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What does fearful mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word fearful? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Frightening.
  2. (now rare) Frightened, filled with terror.
  3. Tending to fear.
  4. (dated) Terrible; shockingly bad.
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The Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme is a kind of Scouts organisation for young adults fearful of wogglesand uniforms.
It's very hard at the moment to read that mood, but it's uncertain, slightly fearful, unconfident.
People are more fearful about shouting at people, telling them to do a job properly, clipping them round the ear.
Anyone who has nothing to be fearful of should not be afraid of the Customs Service.
Alone, free from the fearful burden of the faithful, I felt myself slip back into my natural agnostic relationship with the world.
Police in the area have issued several warnings fearful that somebody will eventually be hurt.

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