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fearsome

/feer-suhm/US // ˈfɪər səm //UK // (ˈfɪəsəm) //

可怕的,可怕的是,可怕,令人恐惧的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : causing fear: a fearsome noise.
    • : causing awe or respect: a fearsome self-confidence.
    • : afraid; timid.

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Examples

  • Clearly, Tuesday claimed our attention here merely by not being Monday, the bringer of fearsome thunderstorms.

  • She was the target of a fearsome Facebook post referencing “bodies swinging from trees.”

  • The fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex could generate tremendous bone-crushing bite forces thanks to a stiff lower jaw.

  • The DA’s office also faces pushback from judges who resent its calls for sentencing reform and community members who believe, despite being provided with evidence to the contrary, that a fearsome carceral system is crucial to public safety.

  • That means that the shark would have been about 2 meters long at birth — large enough for even a newborn to be a fearsome foe in the seas, the scientists conclude.

  • Gus Connolly, a broad middle-aged man with a thick red beard, was working at the Games dressed as a fearsome Scottish warrior.

  • The tiger is one of the most fearsome predators of the animal kingdom.

  • On more than one occasion, Stallworth undercuts the image of Grand Wizard David Duke as a fearsome figure.

  • She missed the rampant spying on its own citizens by the fearsome FSB.

  • The former Arkansas governor called for a military so "fearsome" that "no one dares poke it."

  • It is a fearsome thing for a man to be left alone in the dead of night with a young baby.

  • A fearsome thunderstorm or howling tornado of dust might reveal her fickleness of mood at any moment.

  • When he was interviewed, fearsome in manner as he was, he sent the worm away packed with ideas and phrases.

  • A fearsome struggle would surge around that tower where the British flag was flying.

  • What might be of a disturbing nature in the old farmhouse could not, she thought, be as fearsome as the approaching tempest.