How do you use Fearfully in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like fearlessly, plus the exact meaning.
Fearfully meaning
- In a fearful manner; characterized by fear.
- very; very much.
Synonyms of Fearfully
Using Fearfully
- The main meaning on this page is: In a fearful manner; characterized by fear. | very; very much.
- Useful related words include: fearlessly.
- In the example corpus, fearfully often appears in combinations such as: so fearfully.
Context around Fearfully
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 4 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 11 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Fearfully
- In this selection, "fearfully" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 23.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, people, door, include, running, turn and attacked stand out and add context to how "fearfully" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include did so fearfully and examples include fearfully asking if. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "fearfully" sits close to words such as aadi, aayush and abbottabad, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with fearfully
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Others who turned out to work on Saturday, did so fearfully. (11 words)
Macbeth raves fearfully, startling his guests, as the ghost is only visible to himself. (14 words)
Rembrandt 's Andromeda Chained to the Rocks is unusual in showing her alone, fearfully awaiting the monster. (17 words)
A. Markov, in charge of the literature division of MAT) later at the door fearfully tried to explain to me that trying to publish the novel would cause terrible things", she wrote in her diary (May 14, 1939). (38 words)
Videos shared on social media of the immediate aftermath of the quake, which Reuters could not immediately verify, showed people fearfully running out of a shopping center, restaurants, and apartment buildings and congregating outside. (34 words)
They were genuinely enthusiastic; they followed me to the automobile, devoured me with their eyes, not fearfully, as before, but rapturously, and shouted at the tops of their voices. (29 words)
Example sentences (11)
Videos shared on social media of the immediate aftermath of the quake, which Reuters could not immediately verify, showed people fearfully running out of a shopping center, restaurants, and apartment buildings and congregating outside.
After 9-11, some predicted the end of the skyscraper and that people would fearfully turn away from turnstiles.
Others who turned out to work on Saturday, did so fearfully.
I do wish to express great sympathy for Williams, Rep. Steve Scalise and others so fearfully attacked by a deranged individual.
A. Markov, in charge of the literature division of MAT) later at the door fearfully tried to explain to me that trying to publish the novel would cause terrible things", she wrote in her diary (May 14, 1939).
Examples include fearfully asking if a cat found frozen in their freezer is definitely dead and mentioning a friend who died of a terminal illness.
Macbeth raves fearfully, startling his guests, as the ghost is only visible to himself.
Rembrandt 's Andromeda Chained to the Rocks is unusual in showing her alone, fearfully awaiting the monster.
The term is derived from the Greek words δεινός (deinos, meaning "terrible", "potent", or "fearfully great") and σαῦρος (sauros, meaning "lizard" or "reptile").
They were genuinely enthusiastic; they followed me to the automobile, devoured me with their eyes, not fearfully, as before, but rapturously, and shouted at the tops of their voices.
Vicarious fear acquisition is learning to fear something, not by a subject's own experience of fear, but by watching others reacting fearfully ( observational learning ).
Common combinations with fearfully
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- so fearfully 2×