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.
For example Barbra Streisand, who the Star says is fearful of getting her own subpoena because of a rumored affair with Clinton, says, "We elected Bill Clinton president, not pope."
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.
That is because language is invented, not discovered, and, as such, language reflects the creativity and fearful asymmetry of the human mind.
I have it on good authority that the main reason that Monica hasn't taken a job or even done volunteer work during her ordeal is that she is rightfully fearful that her co-workers would immediately sell her out to the tabloids.