Words similar to fearful

Example sentences for: fearful

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In other words, it would be a mistake to dismiss all U.S. investors' worries about the impact of the Hong Kong sell-off on U.S. companies as the fearful bleatings of people who, having read too many silly headlines about globalization, suddenly decided--since everyone else seemed to have decided, too--that the sky was falling.
Though I appreciate the personal freedoms I enjoy as an adult, I think our culture is overly fearful of the dependent nature of children, and so we try to force them (prematurely) to be the atomized individuals that industrial society demands.
Often a tribe's fear or fearful experience is revealed in a name: [The name following > is that yielded by the italicized word.]
Yet, as you eavesdrop on him in recordings he left for posterity, like Dorothy peeking behind the screen at the Wizard, you find not a giant but a fearful and uncertain man with a very big voice.
For example, she is fearful that her 5-year-old will someday date a person of another race, and she defends those who (as she puts it) "want to preserve their traditions."