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DictionaryEnglish - Myanmar

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fearsome

/ˈfɪəs(ə)m/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈfɪəs(ə)m/

fearsome

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Final e often stays silent

fear - some -> fearsome

Myanmar meaning

(adj) ကြောက်ရွံ့ဖွယ်ဖြစ်သော။ ထိပ်လန့်ဖွယ်။

Full entry

fear / fÇǝ(r) / n

(က) [U] ဘေးအန္တရာယ်။ ကြောက်ရွံ့ခြင်း။ ပူပင် ခြင်း။ overcome by fear ❍ feel/show no fear ❍ White with fear, she rose to her feet. ❍ The local people live in constant daily fear of violence from young hooligans. ❍ He entered the interview room in fear and trembling (ie feeling very frightened).
(ခ) [C] ကြောက်ရွံ့ခြင်း။ ပူပင်မှု။ have genuine/understandable/ well-founded fears ❍ an instinctive fear of heights ❍ The doctor's report confirmed our worst fears. ❍ dismiss sb's fears as irrational ❍ overcome/ allay sb's fears ❍ continuing interest-rate fears.
v
၁။ (က) ကြောက်သည်။ လန့်သည်။ fear death/illness ❍ She fears no one. ❍ The plague was greatly feared in the Middle Ages.
(ခ) စိုးရိမ်သည်။ လန့်သည်။ Never fear (ie Don't worry), everything will be all right. ❍ (fml ) She feared to speak in his presence.
၂။ စိုးရိမ်သည်။ လန့်သည်။ They feared the worst (ie thought that the worst had happened or would happen). ❍ ‘Are we going to be late?’ ‘I fear so. ’ ❍ I fear (that) he may die.
❏ fear for sb/sth [PHRV ] စိုးရိမ်သည်။ ကြောင့်ကြသည်။ သောကရောက်သည်။ I fear for their safety in this weather.
❏ fearful / -fl / adj
၁။ ~ (of sth/of doing sth); ~ (that)… စိုးရိမ်သော။ fearful of waking the guards/fearful that we might wake the guards ❍ her fearful eyes.
၂။ ကြောက်စရာကောင်းသော။ ကြောက်မက်ဖွယ်ကောင်း သော။ a fearful road accident.
၃။ (infml ) အကြီးအကျယ်။ He had a fearful row with his wife.
❏ fearfully / -fǝli / adv ကြောက်ကြောက်လန့်လန့်။ ကြောက်ခမန်းလိလိ။ glancing fearfully around ❍ fearfully expensive.
❏ fearless adj မကြောက်သော။ အကြောက်အလန့်မရှိသော။ ရဲရင့်သော။
a fearless mountaineer ❍ supple and fearless in the water.
❏ fearlessly adv မကြောက်မလန့်။
❏ fearlessness n [U] ရဲရင့်ခြင်း။ သတ္တိ။
❏ fearsome /'fÇǝsǝm/ adj ကြောက်မက်ဖွယ်။
a fearsome sight/spectacle ❍ He has a fearsome reputation as a fighter. ❍ (fig ) a fearsome task
(ie one that frightens one because it is difficult).
❏ for fear of sth/of doing sth; for fear (that…) [IDM ] စိုးရိမ်ခြင်း။ ရှောင်ရှားလိုခြင်း။ We spoke in whispers for fear of waking the guards/for fear (that) we might wake the guards.
❏ in fear of one's life [IDM ] အသက်ဘေးကို ငဲ့၍။
❏ no fear [IDM ] (infml ) မစိုးရိမ်ပါနှင့်။ မပူပါနှင့်။ ‘Are you coming climbing?’ ‘No fear!’
❏ put the fear of God into sb [IDM ] (infml ) ငယ်ထိပ် သွေးရောက်အောင်၊ အလွန်အကြူးအထူးကြောက်အောင်လုပ်သည်။

More examples

Edward knew it was dangerous, but he felt no fear.
[fear of] : She eventually managed to overcome her fear of the dark.
[in fear] : Martin screamed in fear.
[be filled with fear] : I was suddenly filled with fear.
[shake/tremble with fear] : She was shaking with fear.
A meeting was set up to try to allay workers’ fears.
[fear about] : There are fears about the safety of the nuclear plant.
[fear of] : This latest case has raised fears of an epidemic.
[fear for] : He expressed fears for his missing wife’s safety.
[fear that] : Sandbags were placed along the shore amid fears that the lake would overflow.
[fear of] : There’s no fear of becoming bored in a place like this.
[fear (that)] : I don’t think there’s any fear that that will happen.

Synonyms

terror, dread, horror, fright, panic, alarm, trepidation, apprehension, abhorrence, agitation, angst, anticipate, anxiety, apprehend, aversion, avoid, awe, be afraid, be anxious, be apprehensive, be disquieted, be frightened, be in awe, be scared, blanch, break out in a sweat, bÃªte noire, chickenheartedness, cold feet, cold sweat, concern, consternation, cowardice, cower, creeps, crouch, dare not, despair, discomposure, dismay, disquietude, distress, doubt, expect, faintheartedness, falter, feel concern, flinch, foreboding, foresee, fret, funk, have butterflies, have qualms, jitters, lose courage, misgiving, nightmare, phobia, presentiment, quail, qualm, quaver, recreancy, reverence, revulsion, scare, shrink, shudder, shun, shy, start, suspect, suspicion, timidity, tremble, trembling, tremor, unease, uneasiness, wilt, worry

Antonyms

assurance, brave, bravery, calm, calmness, cheer, comfort, confidence, contentment, courage, ease, encouragement, face, faith, fearlessness, happiness, heroism, joy, like, liking, love, meet, steady, stretch, trust, unconcern, want

Cross references

terror dread horror fright panic alarm trepidation apprehension abhorrence agitation angst anticipate anxiety apprehend aversion avoid awe be afraid be anxious be apprehensive be disquieted be frightened be in awe be scared blanch break out in a sweat bÃªte noire chickenheartedness

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