different between fearful vs raging
fearful
English
Alternative forms
- fearefull (obsolete)
- fearfull (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English ferful, fervol, equivalent to fear +? -ful.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?f??f?l/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?f??f?l/
- Rhymes: -???f?l
- Hyphenation: fear?ful
Adjective
fearful (comparative fearfuller or fearfuler or more fearful, superlative fearfullest or fearfulest or most fearful)
- Frightening.
- Tending to fear; timid.
- a fearful boy
- (dated) Terrible; shockingly bad.
- (now rare) Frightened; filled with terror.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.4:
- Those two great champions did attonce pursew / The fearefull damzell with incessant payns […]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.4:
Synonyms
- (frightened): frightened, timid, timorous
- See also Thesaurus:afraid and Thesaurus:cowardly
Translations
Adverb
fearful (comparative more fearful, superlative most fearful)
- (dialect) Extremely; fearfully.
Further reading
- fearful in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- fearful in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Lauffer
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raging
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??e?d???/
- Rhymes: -e?d???
Verb
raging
- present participle of rage
Adjective
raging (comparative more raging, superlative most raging)
- Volatile, very active or unpredictable.
- (of a person) In a state of rage; in a state of extreme, often uncontrollable, anger.
Translations
Noun
raging (plural ragings)
- A display of rage.
- 1813, Patrick Brontë, The Rural Minstrel
- To quell the ragings of his Father's ire, / And save a guilty world from quenchless fire!
- 1813, Patrick Brontë, The Rural Minstrel
Anagrams
- Riggan, gringa
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