1. fearsome - Adjective
2. fearsome - Adjective Satellite
Frightful; causing fear.
Easily frightened; timid; timorous.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWe fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves. Abraham Maslow
The real power of a wolf isn't in its fearsome jaws, which can clench with fifteen hundred pounds of pressure per square inch. The real power of a wolf is having that strength, and knowing when not to use it. Jodi Picoult
Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder, boredom, angst, ennui-these are the true hero's enemies, and make no mistake, they are fearsome indeed. For they are real. David Foster Wallace
I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved. Barbara Kingsolver
To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it. Sophocles
A weak enemy in the fortress is more fearsome than the strongest outside. Johann Jakob Wilhelm Heinse