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How to pronounce “fearful”
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Pronunciation guide for fearful
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of fearful with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Why some people are more altruistic than others
they have difficulty recognizing fearful facial expressions like this one.
- Definition summary
- Frightening; causing fear.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce fearful
Why some people are more altruistic than others

they have difficulty recognizing fearful facial expressions like this one.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “fearful”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Frightening; causing fear.
- Tending to fear; timid.
- (dated) Terrible; shockingly bad.
- (now rare) Frightened; filled with terror.
- [Adverb]
- (dialectal) Extremely; fearfully.
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