(a.) Inspiring fear or awe; exciting apprehension or terror; terrible; frightful; dreadful.
(a.) Full of fear, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened.
(a.) inclined to fear; easily frightened; without courage; timid.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
(2) Since the start of this week, markets have been more cautious, with bond yields in Spain reaching their highest levels in four months on Tuesday amid concern about the scale of the austerity measures being imposed by the government and fears that the country might need a bailout.
(3) S&P – the only one of the three major agencies not to have stripped the UK of its coveted AAA status – said it had been surprised at the pick-up in activity during 2013 – a year that began with fears of a triple-dip recession.
(4) On Friday, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry appeared to confirm those fears, telling reporters that the joint declaration, a deal negotiated by London and Beijing guaranteeing Hong Kong’s way of life for 50 years, “was a historical document that no longer had any practical significance”.
(5) I fear that I will have to go through another witch-hunt in order to apply for this benefit."
(6) And adding to this toxic mix, was the fear that the hung parliament would lead to a weak government.
(7) Ex-patients of a dental fear clinic were found to have significantly reduced, yet still high, dental anxiety scores in comparison with the pre-intervention scores.
(8) The hypothesis that the standard acoustic startle habituation paradigm contains the elements of Pavlovian fear conditioning was tested.
(9) Wharton feared that if his bill had not cleared the Commons on this occasion, it would have failed as there are only three sitting Fridays in the Commons next year when the legislation could be heard again should peers in the House of Lords successfully pass amendments.
(10) In a recent study, Orr and Lanzetta (1984) showed that the excitatory properties of fear facial expressions previously described (Lanzetta & Orr, 1981; Orr & Lanzetta, 1980) do not depend on associative mechanisms; even in the absence of reinforcement, fear faces intensify the emotional reaction to a previously conditioned stimulus and disrupt extinction of an acquired fear response.
(11) But that promise was beginning to startle the markets, which admire Monti’s appetite for austerity and fear the free spending and anti-European views of some Italian politicians.
(12) First, Dr Collins is fear-mongering when he says that ‘lives will be lost’ as a result of our calculations.
(13) Whether out of fear, indifference or a sense of impotence, the general population has learned to turn away, like commuters speeding by on the freeways to the suburbs, unseeingly passing over the squalor.
(14) Under pressure from many backbenchers, he has tightened planning controls on windfarms and pledged to "roll back" green subsidies on bills, leading to fears of dwindling support for the renewables industry.
(15) The countries have accused each other of cross-border attacks and there are fears the current tension could spark a wider war with Nkunda at its centre.
(16) They have not remotely done this so far, largely from fear of domestic political consequences that cannot be simply dismissed.
(17) Likud warned: “Peres will divide Jerusalem.” Arab states feared that his dream of a borderless Middle East spelled Israeli economic colonialism by stealth.
(18) One of the reasons for doing this study is to give a voice to women trapped in this epidemic,” said Dr Catherine Aiken, academic clinical lecturer in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology of the University of Cambridge, “and to bring to light that with all the virology, the vaccination and containment strategy and all the great things that people are doing, there is no voice for those women on the ground.” In a supplement to the study, the researchers have published some of the emails to Women on Web which reveal their fears.
(19) Some have been threatened and assaulted, while others’ homes have been ransacked, their families living in constant fear.
(20) The population prevalence of high dental fear was 115 fearful children per 1000 population (SE = 0.02).
Nerveless
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of nerves.
(a.) Destitute of strength or of courage; wanting vigor; weak; powerless.
Example Sentences:
(1) I just thought it was a little beyond me this year.” On those hazy days in London Ennis-Hill had blown away the opposition with a nerveless and spectacularly quick hurdles on the opening morning of competition that left her cruising to victory.
(2) HU-P animals resemble nerveless animals in their lack of behavioural responses but they contain about 2% nerve cells.
(3) Southampton must be optimistic for the rest of the season too, after nervelessly outplaying Liverpool on their own turf.
(4) Come the bell, the upstart nervelessly played it cool, almost a laughingly gay matador, his speed of hand and foot totally nullifying Liston’s wicked jab, the key to his armoury.
(5) Scott Murray Benteke scored a spectacular bicycle kick at Old Trafford, tucked away the most nerveless penalty of the season at Crystal Palace, and was one of only three players to score a winner against Leicester.
(6) Cabaye’s retake to the top corner was nerveless after his first effort was disallowed for encroachment by the young man whose ongoing silliness would soon lead to an early exit.
(7) Just before 7pm, when the Wolverhampton-born gymnast Kristian Thomas landed the final tumble of a highly charged and nerveless routine, the North Greenwich Arena (as we call it for the Games) filled with the kind of national excitement for which it was conceived: Britain's men had won its first team gymnastics medal for exactly a century.
(8) Both a nerveless goalscorer and the hare that made an entire team run behind him.
(9) Accepting a pass from Geremi, who had collected Gabbidon's poor clearance, he hit an angled shot that was deflected by Collins's boot into the path of Crespo, who provided a nerveless finish from close range.
(10) Owen Farrell's nerveless goal-kicking and another Charlie Hodgson charge-down did the job.
(11) Upon hand feeding, some HU-P animals will recover but most will produce nerveless buds.
(12) What little Matic and Mikel let through, John Terry or Gary Cahill were generally managing to mop up, until with one sublime turn and purposeful sprint towards goal, Sterling split the centre-backs and came up with a nerveless finish to give Liverpool a lifeline.
(13) Nerveless animals show broad tentacle distribution patterns with increased means and variances.
(14) His 85th-minute penalty provoked a dispute with Jordan Henderson on the pitch and a rebuke from Steven Gerrard sitting in a television studio, but all that mattered was that it was nerveless, accurate and broke Besiktas’ resilience in the Europa League .
(15) With the half-time substitute Mertens and Eden Hazard finally injecting some urgency, the pair combined on the counterattack and the Napoli player nervelessly slotted home the winner.
(16) You’d walk past him in the street without taking a second look, but he is Virgin Galactic’s chief test pilot and therefore possesses the kind of nerveless courage that is the preserve of a tiny fraction of humanity.
(17) Tom Daley delivered a nerveless performance on Saturday night to claim an extraordinary bronze medal in the 10m platform dive .
(18) And Graham does it – splitting the uprights nervelessly to win the game for New Orleans.
(19) Another was blown away by a nerveless drive volley from midcourt.
(20) Neverless hydra produced by hydroxyurea resemble nerveless animals produced by other techniques, in their behavioural, morphological and developmental properties.