Usually means: Causing fear, dread, or alarm.
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  1. fearsome: Merriam-Webster
  2. fearsome: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fearsome: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fearsome: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fearsome: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fearsome, fearsome: Wordnik
  7. fearsome: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fearsome: Wiktionary
  9. fearsome: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fearsome: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fearsome: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Fearsome, fearsome: Dictionary.com
  13. Fearsome: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Fearsome: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. fearsome: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. fearsome: Rhymezone
  17. fearsome: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. fearsome: FreeDictionary.org
  19. fearsome: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. fearsome: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. fearsome: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. fearsome: Encyclopedia

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▸ adjective:  frightening, especially in appearance.
▸ adjective:  (rare or archaic) fearful, frightened

Similar:
frightening, dreadful, horrific, terrible, direful, alarming, dreaded, fearful, horrendous, awful, more...

Opposite:
harmless, friendly, approachable, inviting, welcoming

Phrases:
Fearsome critters, Fearsome Five, potent or fearsome mixture, fearsome type of man, fearsome threesome, more...

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Similar:
frightening, dreadful, horrific, terrible, direful, alarming, dreaded, fearful, horrendous, awful, more...

Opposite:
harmless, friendly, approachable, inviting, welcoming

Phrases:
Fearsome critters, Fearsome Five, potent or fearsome mixture, fearsome type of man, fearsome threesome, fearsome creature, fearsome folklore figure, more...

Colors:
    black,     blood red,     dark purple,     charcoal,     midnight blue, more...



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