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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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truculent
English
Etymology
First attested circa 1540, from Middle French, from Latin truculentus (“fierce, savage”), from trux (“fierce, wild”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: \tr?k'-y?-l?nt\, IPA(key): /?t??kj?l?nt/
Adjective
truculent (comparative more truculent, superlative most truculent)
- Cruel or savage.
- The truculent soldiers gave us a steely-eyed stare.
- Deadly or destructive.
- Defiant or uncompromising.
- Eager or quick to argue, fight or start a conflict.
- 1992, Joel Feinberg, “The Social Importance of Moral Rights” in Philosophical Perspectives VI (Ethics, 1992), page 195:
- It is an important source of the value of moral rights then that?—?speaking very generally?—?they dispose people with opposed interests to be reasonable rather than arrogant and truculent.
- 2010, Seal Team 6 Member, in Esquire Magazine "The Man Who Killed Osama bin Laden..."[1]
- (Refering to women in Bin Laden’s compound) “These bitches is getting truculent.”
- 1992, Joel Feinberg, “The Social Importance of Moral Rights” in Philosophical Perspectives VI (Ethics, 1992), page 195:
Quotations
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, ch VI,
- In her turn, Helen Burns asked me to explain, and I proceeded forthwith to pour out, in my own way, the tale of my sufferings and resentments. Bitter and truculent when excited, I spoke as I felt, without reserve or softening.
- 1860–1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, ch XLVI,
- She really was a most charming girl, and might have passed for a captive fairy, whom that truculent Ogre, Old Barley, had pressed into his service.
- 1877, Leo Tolstoy (author), David Magarshack (translator), Anna Karenina, part 6, ch 12,
- She might pity herself, but he must not pity her. She did not want any quarrel; she blamed him for wanting one, but she could not help assuming a truculent attitude.
- 1895, H. G. Wells, The Wheels of Chance, ch 10,
- Most of them were little dramatic situations, crucial dialogues, the return of Mr. Hoopdriver to his native village, for instance, in a well-cut holiday suit and natty gloves, the unheard asides of the rival neighbours, the delight of the old ‘mater’, the intelligence—“A ten-pound rise all at once from Antrobus, mater. Whad d’yer think of that?” or again, the first whispering of love, dainty and witty and tender, to the girl he served a few days ago with sateen, or a gallant rescue of generalised beauty in distress from truculent insult or ravening dog.
- 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Beasts of Tarzan, ch 10,
- If he came too close to a she with a young baby, the former would bare her great fighting fangs and growl ominously, and occasionally a truculent young bull would snarl a warning if Tarzan approached while the former was eating.
- 1922, Rafael Sabatini, Captain Blood: His Odyssy, ch XVI,
- Cahusac appeared to be having it all his own way, and he raised his harsh, querulous voice so that all might hear his truculent denunciation.
- 1925, Richard Henry Tawney, “Introduction”, to Thomas Wilson A discourse upon usury by way of dialogue and orations: for the better variety and more delight of all those that shall read this treatise (1572); Classics of social and political science Page 2
- Whatever his prejudices—and his book shows that they were tough—the most truculent of self-made capitalists could not have criticised him as a child in matters of finance. He had tried commercial cases, negotiated commercial treaties, …
Synonyms
- (cruel or savage): barbarous, cruel, ferocious, fierce, savage
- (deadly or destructive): deadly, destructive
- (defiant or uncompromising): defiant, inflexible, stubborn, uncompromising, unyielding
- (eager or quick to argue, fight or start a conflict): belligerent
Related terms
- truculence
- truculency
- truculently
Translations
See also
- belligerent
Anagrams
- unclutter
French
Etymology
From Latin truculentus (“fierce, savage”), from trux (“fierce, wild”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?y.ky.l??/
Adjective
truculent (feminine singular truculente, masculine plural truculents, feminine plural truculentes)
- violent or belligerent in a colorful, over-the-top or memorable fashion
- picturesque
Verb
truculent
- third-person plural present indicative of truculer
- third-person plural present subjunctive of truculer
Further reading
- “truculent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Romanian
Etymology
From French truculent, from Latin truculentus.
Adjective
truculent m or n (feminine singular truculent?, masculine plural truculen?i, feminine and neuter plural truculente)
- truculent
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