Difference between Frightening and Fearful

FRIGHTENING vs FEARFUL: NOUN

Indicating anxiety or fear.
Experiencing fear; frightened.
Causing fear or dread or terror
Lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted
Extremely distressing
Timid by nature or revealing timidity
Experiencing or showing fear
Inclined to feel anxiety or apprehension; timid; nervous.
Causing or capable of causing fear; frightening.
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.
Extreme, as in degree or extent. Used especially of something negative.

Ignobly timid and faint-hearted
Lacking courage
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.

Terrifying, Direful, Terrorization, Terrorisation, Dreaded, Dire, Dread, Awful, Fearful, Fearsome, Dreadful, Terrible, Horrendous, Alarming, Horrific

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

Scary, Terrifying, Direful, Terrorisation, Dreaded, Dire, Dread, Awful, Fearful, Fearsome, Dreadful, Terrible, Horrendous, Alarming, Horrific

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

Which ones were the most frightening or illuminating?
Losing your youngster noises absolutely horrifying and frightening.
Libra, and the frightening future of AI algorithms.
Each prayer is frightening in what it demands.
Being arrested can be a terribly frightening experience.
World War I is certainly frightening but real.
What happens in this judgment is just frightening.
Even this suggestion has frightening portents for some.
Hearing About Frightening Experiences Children can also learn to fear situations from hearing about frightening experiences.
As frightening as this experience can be, the financial risk that it poses can be equally frightening.

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!