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fearful 
1  adj If you are fearful of  something, you are afraid of it. 
FORMAL Bankers were fearful of a world banking crisis...  
2  adj You use fearful to emphasize how serious or bad a situation is. 
FORMAL, emphasis 
(=dreadful) 

...the fearful consequences which might flow from unilateral military moves.  
3  adj Fearful is used to emphasize that something is very bad. 
INFORMAL, OLD-FASHIONED, emphasis You gave me a fearful shock!