Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh.
Shak.
4. Inspiring fear or awe; exciting apprehension or terror; terrible;
frightful; dreadful.
This glorious and fearful name, The Lord thy God.
Deut. xxviii. 58.
Death is a fearful thing.
Shak.
In dreams they fearful precipices tread.
Dryden.
Syn. -- Apprehensive; afraid; timid; timorous; horrible; distressing;
shocking; frightful; dreadful; awful.
Fear"ful*ly, adv. In a fearful manner.
Fear"ful*ness, n. The state of being fearful.
Fear"less, a. Free from fear.
Syn. -- Bold; courageous; intrepid; valorous; valiant; brave;
undaunted; dauntless; heroic.
-- Fear"less*ly, adv. -- Fear"less*ness, n.
Fear"naught` (?), n. 1. A fearless person.
2. A stout woolen cloth of great thickness; dreadnaught; also, a warm
garment.
Fear"some (?) a. 1. Frightful; causing fear. [Scotch] "This fearsome
wind." Sir W. Scott
2. Easily frightened; timid; timorous. "A silly fearsome thing." B.
Taylor
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Fea"si*bil*ity (?) n.; pl. Feasibilities (-tiz). [from Feasible] The
quality of being feasible; practicability; also, that which is
feasible; as, before we adopt a plan, let us consider its feasibility.
Men often swallow falsities for truths, dubiosities for
certainties, possibilities for feasibilities.
Sir T. Browne.
Fea"si*ble (?) a. [F. faisable, fr. faire to make or do, fr. L. facere.
See Fact, Feat.] 1. Capable of being done, executed, or effected;
practicable.
Always existing before their eyes as a thing feasible in practice.
Burke.
It was not feasible to gratify so many ambitions.
Beaconsfield.