Adjective
1. awful
2. dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible, alarming, cowardly
3. caitiff, chicken, chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow, yellow-bellied, dastard, dastardly, faint, fainthearted, timid, funky, poltroon, pusillanimous, poor-spirited, unmanly, craven, recreant, afraid, ignoble, timid, frightful
4. terrible, bad, timorous
5. trepid, timid, afraid
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