Difference between Afraid and Fearful

AFRAID vs FEARFUL: ADJECTIVE

Regretful, sorry
Filled with regret or concern. Used especially to soften an unpleasant statement.
Filled with fear; frightened.
Feeling worry or concern or insecurity
Having feelings of aversion or unwillingness
Filled with fear or apprehension
Filled with regret or concern; used often to soften an unpleasant statement

Lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted
Experiencing or showing fear
Timid by nature or revealing timidity
Extremely distressing
Causing fear or dread or terror
Experiencing fear; frightened.
Inclined to feel anxiety or apprehension; timid; nervous.
Indicating anxiety or fear.
Causing or capable of causing fear; frightening.
Extreme, as in degree or extent. Used especially of something negative.
Full of fear, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened.
Inclined to fear; easily frightened; without courage; timid.
Indicating, or caused by, fear.
Inspiring fear or awe; exciting apprehension or terror; terrible; frightful; dreadful.
Frightening.
Frightened, filled with terror.
Terrible.

Filled with regret or concern
Synonyms Afraid, Frightened, Terrified, timid, shy, apprehensive, troubled, suspicious, distrustful. Afraid expresses a less degree of fear than frightened or terrified, which describe outward states. In colloquial language, I am afraid is often nearly equivalent to I suspect, I am inclined to think, or the like, and is regularly used as a kind of polite introduction to a correction, objection, etc., or to make a statement sound less positive: as, I am afraid you are wrong; I am afraid that argument won't hold.
Impressed with fear or apprehension; fearful: followed by of before the object of fear, where that is not an infinitive: as, to be afraid of death; I am afraid to go.

Feeling fear, dread, apprehension, or solicitude; afraid.
Timid; timorous; wanting courage.
Causing or such as to cause fear; impressing fear; frightful; dreadful; terrible; awful.
Showing fear; produced by fear; indicative of fear.
Synonyms Pusillanimous, cowardly, faint-hearted. Dreadful. Frightful, etc. (see awful); dire, direful, horrible, distressing, shocking.
Lacking courage
Ignobly timid and faint-hearted

Horrified, Appalled, Shocked, Panicked, Disinclined, Cowed, Alarmed, Concerned, Apprehensive, Intimidated, Petrified, Terrified, Frightened, Fearful, Scared

Frightful, Dreaded, Fearsome, Unmanly, Fainthearted, Cowardly, Alarming, Trepid, Cowering, Timorous, Cringing, Frightening, Timid, Dread, Afraid

Horrified, Appalled, Shocked, Panicked, Disinclined, Cowed, Alarmed, Concerned, Apprehensive, Intimidated, Petrified, Terrified, Frightened, Fearful, Scared

Frightful, Dreaded, Fearsome, Unmanly, Fainthearted, Cowardly, Alarming, Trepid, Cowering, Timorous, Cringing, Frightening, Timid, Dread, Afraid

It might have been when you were afraid of commitment, or even when you were afraid of being vulnerable.
He describes being Queer and growing up afraid of being outed, afraid of being close to other Queer teens.
The ghost or the zombie never frightened us who were not afraid, but they will run after them who were too afraid.
Milla is afraid of her: has always been afraid of her.
Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.
Once again she admitted to herself that she was afraid, horribly afraid, of the beautiful woman with the cruel eyes.
Communism is everywhere and when you try to see it, you might start to get afraid, very afraid.
Be afraid, America, be very afraid not so much of ISIS, but of the Emory college students.
No one who hates but is afraid of love, and therefore must he be afraid of God.
So the Nome was afraid of himself and afraid of everything around him.

Worse, are they fearful of termination or layoffs?
Some schools, fearful of lawsuits, may do so.
People are happy, not fearful, in Alloy sessions.
Man cannot die better than facing fearful odds.
Excellent driver was never fearful of our rides.
America to be fearful of what would follow.
EOL care and were fearful of poor quality.
They were fearful to return home and fearful that if they left home all their possessions would be lost.
Because we are fearful of people coming at us and fearful of attacks, we give up our rights.
Fearful he is to see, and fearful to hear!