The phrase "felt fearful" is correct and can be used in written English.
For example, "The loud thunder outside made me feel fearful."
"Suddenly, I felt fearful — so fearful that I stayed silent," she writes.
She felt fearful that Arabs she saw in the hospital could pull out knives.
"At first I felt fearful about joining a group," said Nancy Kamen, 56, of Englewood.
Many of his elderly students felt fearful or anxious about technology, he said beforehand, or were embarrassed about not being in the digital mainstream.
"The sentence was a proverbial slap to him on the wrist and it was a slap to us in the face," she said, adding that she now felt fearful when treating intoxicated people.
Five years ago, Juan Williams, a black journalist who covered civil rights and wrote a biography of Thurgood Marshall, stated that he felt fearful when boarding a plane with Muslims.
Alternately they may feel fearful and try and control the fear unconsciously by denial, discounting or reactance against the threat (called defensive motivation or fear control responses).
I wish I would have known that everybody in a business feels fearful at times, including the CEO, but that nobody talks about their fear.
But domestically I do not feel fearful.
I wonder, did you ever feel fearful on stage?
It is leaving parents to feel fearful, vulnerable and intimidated".
