What's the difference between fearsome and terrifying?

Fearsome


Definition:

  • (a.) Easily frightened; timid; timorous.
  • (a.) Frightful; causing fear.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Dissecting aneurysms--which should be called incomplete internal aortic disease with delamination of the media--remains a fearsome disease in subjects over 50, despite advances in surgery.
  • (2) Between festivals, Hardee played cameo roles in TV comedies such as Blackadder and The Comic Strip, and ran his own comedy club, the Tunnel, which he had opened at the southern end of the Blackwall Tunnel in 1984; it acquired a fearsome reputation as a graveyard for aspiring standups.
  • (3) Four cases of angiosarcoma of the breast, including three previously unpublished, form the starting point for a brief descriptive review of this extremely rare but fearsome tumour which accounts for only 0.04 per cent of breast malignancies.
  • (4) Some tours take tourists to mask shops; we should be taking them to the mask makers, so that they get paid for their work directly.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A fearsome devil mask Photograph: Alamy The current government, which replaced Rajapaksa’s administration two years ago, has made a commitment to sustainable tourism.
  • (5) As anyone who has witnessed one of its cake stall scrums knows, the WI has become shorthand for the finest homemade produce: it has a fearsome reputation to protect. "
  • (6) The further assertion is made that, for Malcolm, his father was suicidogenic; and established this penchant in Malcolm (through his neglect, active rejection, fearsomeness, and his fixed attention to his own writing--Redburn, White Jacket, and Moby Dick) within the first 2 years of Malcolm's life.
  • (7) In their conclusions the authors emphasize the reliability of echocardiography and the need for an early operation in cases with haemodynamic disorders in order to avoid severe myocardial failure and, if possible, systemic embolism and its fearsome sequelae.
  • (8) So that's 1-1 on Twitter allez es (that's the plural of allez , obviously): Brando Florente (@BrandoJablan) @guardian_sport @Simon_Burnton come on Nole June 8, 2014 joseph langton (@jnlangton) @guardian_sport @Simon_Burnton come on raffa June 8, 2014 2.24pm BST First set: Djokovic* 2-1 Nadal Djokovic nets a straightforward backhand to go 0-15 down, but an ace, a powerful crosscourt forehand from halfway down the court and then a fearsome, thunderous rally that ends with Nadal slapping a forehand into the net puts him firmly in control of the game.
  • (9) Ángel suggested the rooftop – the rest of the rooms, he said, were haunted by the fearsome ghosts of monks.
  • (10) He has also covered an old Scottish folk song, 'Hymn Of The Whale', as well as a fearsome semi-industrial track in the company of the erstwhile drummer from Nine Inch Nails.
  • (11) And we wanted to make this clear, that we had tried to talk to Kembrah Pfahler, the woman behind the band in question, in case you assumed we were a bunch of wusses who couldn't quite stomach engaging in conversation with this force of nature, this fearsome creature of the night.
  • (12) Her predecessor, Margaret Hodge, acquired a fearsome reputation for grilling company bosses about their tax affairs .
  • (13) He's a fearsome creation, a thesaurus of withering insults, with a temperament that can only be measured in degrees of boiling rage.
  • (14) Even with Gustavo’s remarkable statistics, Brazil’s midfield look vulnerable and far from the fearsome unit who bullied rivals last year, most notably Spain.
  • (15) The champion made one more defence against the hopelessly outclassed Tom McNeeley before putting his crown on the line against the fearsome Liston at Chicago's Comiskey Park on September 25 1962.
  • (16) In the weird world of big-league scriptwriting, Marcel became a fearsomely hot property without a single on-screen credit.
  • (17) Sipaun said he did not understand why the squad – which has a fearsome reputation in PNG and is usually enlisted to protect resources projects in highly volatile regions – was in Manus province.
  • (18) Knowledge of the cap, the withdrawal method, douches and condoms, complete with gruesomely graphic illustrations, were learned about from a fearsome medical book acquired by my mother.
  • (19) The trend toward holding pharmaceutical manufacturers responsible for strict product liability, not negligence, is fearsome, since it is not possible to protect oneself against harm which cannot be predicted or prevented.
  • (20) Arsenal would almost certainly face more fearsome last-16 opponents as runners-up but Wenger's message was clear: focus on the details, play the football that has made them England's best team and keep a key element of the season alive into the new year.

Terrifying


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Terrify

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It's a genuine fear, to be terrified of being labelled a racist.
  • (2) The woman who had lost her husband and son had another son, 20 years old, and she was terrified.
  • (3) "I find that terrifying frankly; safety comes from being in a team.
  • (4) In August, the capital came to a standstill as terrified workers were forced to stay home after gang leaders orchestrated a forced public transport boycott by killing a dozen bus drivers in response to a crackdown by authorities against organised crime.
  • (5) Pope is at once sympathetic and terrifying, and it's a measure of Washington's performance that she has to reassure me she's nothing like Pope in real life.
  • (6) This raises two issues: first, the treatment being meted out to thousands of people should be a moral offence to all of us; and second, our flexible labour market and increasingly brutal welfare system are now so constructed that even if you are doing well, it is perfectly possible that you could fall ill, and then find yourself just as terrified as the thousands who are currently being herded through the WCA process.
  • (7) As he described, with something approaching relish, the horrifying effect of a desperate eurozone willing to destroy the British economy, our industry and our society, purely to protect itself, I was reminded of the epic Last Judgement by John Martin, now in the Tate, which depicts the terrifying chaos as the good are separated from the evil damned.
  • (8) Mugabe and his Zanu-PF thugs, terrified of losing their empire, unleashed a carefully targeted anarchy at anyone who showed the slightest sign of dissent.
  • (9) Lord of the Rings made him the doomed anti-hero , he was easily the best thing in the disastrous Troy, giving Odysseus guile, wit and that familiar, rough-edged charm, and he terrified TV viewers as property developer John Dawson in the dark and brilliant Red Riding .
  • (10) Chained and terrified, she made her choice and lied.
  • (11) I lived through terrifying moments during the steepest of my professional learning curves and was perpetually sleep-deprived.
  • (12) He says of the rumoured mood of fear among staff at Philly HQ: "I wasn't terrifying, but I wasn't someone to be tampered with.
  • (13) This is legitimately terrifying.” Several commentators compared Comey’s sudden sacking with the 1973 “Saturday night massacre” when President Richard Nixon dismissed Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor appointed to look into the Watergate affair.
  • (14) I’d have hated to hear that Russell had been dragged, terrified, to his death.
  • (15) A Peta statement added: "We are appalled by photos of a visibly terrified monkey crudely strapped into a restraint device in which he was allegedly launched into space by the Iranian Space Agency.
  • (16) So, to summarise, Shorten and his speechwriting team looked out into the mildly terrifying and endlessly fracturing political landscape of January 2017 and concluded that politics had to be personal.
  • (17) Meanwhile the Dublin government, terrified of the impact that a UK withdrawal could have on its own economy, has warned darkly of immigration and custom posts returning.
  • (18) But it was on 9 August 2007 that fear took over – the banks, terrified at the scale of the toxic debt in the system, simply stopped lending to each other and the world's money markets froze.
  • (19) "But where in Dostoevsky or Poe the protagonist experiences his double as a terrifying embodiment of his own otherness (and especially his own voraciousness and destructiveness), we barely notice the difference between ourselves and our online double.
  • (20) It wasn't that the drinking was great, but I was so terrified of not drinking.

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