| Main Entry: | anxiety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | worry, tension |
Synonyms: |
all-overs, angst, ants in pants, apprehension, botheration, butterflies, care, cold sweat, concern, creeps, disquiet, disquietude, distress, doubt, downer, drag*, dread, fidgets, flap, foreboding, fretfulness, fuss, goose bumps, heebie-jeebies, jitters, jumps, misery, misgiving, mistrust, nail-biting, needles, nervousness, panic, pins and needles, restlessness, shakes, shivers, solicitude, suffering, suspense, sweat*, trouble, uncertainty, unease, uneasiness, watchfulness, willies, worriment |
Antonyms: |
assurance, calmness, composure, contentment, ease, happiness, nonchalance, peace, tranquility |
| Main Entry: | anxious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | worried, tense |
Synonyms: |
afraid, aghast, antsy*, apprehensive, basket case, bugged, butterflies, careful, choked, clutched, concerned, disquieted, distressed, disturbed, dreading, fearful, fidgety, fretful, hacked, hyper, in a state, in a tizzy, in suspense, jittery, jumpy, nervous, nervy, overwrought, restless, scared, shaking, shaky, shivery, shook up, shot to pieces, solicitous, spooked, strung out, sweating bullets, taut, troubled, uneasy, unglued, unquiet, uptight*, watchful, wired, worried sick, wreck* |
Antonyms: |
assured, calm, content, cool, happy, indifferent, peaceful, tranqil, unconcerned, unworried |
| Main Entry: | apprehensive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | anxious, fearful |
Synonyms: |
afraid, alarmed, biting nails, butterflies, concerned, disquieted, doubtful, feel in bones, foreboding, frozen*, get vibes, have a hunch, have cold feet, have funny feeling, have stage fright, hung up, in a cold sweat, in a dither, in a sweat, jellyfish, jittery, jumpy, lily-livered, mistrustful, running scared, scaredy-cat, shaky*, stiff, suspicious, troubled, uncertain, uneasy, uptight, weak, worried, worried sick |
Antonyms: |
at ease, calm, quiet, unafraid, undoubting, unfearful, unsuspicious, unworried |
| Main Entry: | frightened |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very scared |
Synonyms: |
abashed, affrighted, afraid, aghast, alarmed, anxious, butterflies, chicken*, chicken-hearted, cowed, dismayed, fearful, frozen, have cold feet, having kittens, hung up, in a cold sweat, in a panic, in a sweat, jellyfish, jittery, jumpy, lily-livered, mousy, numb, panicky, petrified, pushing the panic button, rabbity, running scared, scared stiff, shaky, shivery, sissy, spooked, startled, terrified, terror-stricken, terrorized, unnerved, uptight, yellow* |
Antonyms: |
calm, comforted, happy |
| Main Entry: | insect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bug |
Synonyms: |
ant, aphid, arachnid, arthropod, bedbug, bee, beetle, bumblebee, butterfly, cockroach, cootie, daddy longlegs, dragonfly, flea, fly, fruit fly, gnat, grasshopper, hornet, ladybug, louse, mite, mite, mosquito, moth, pest, praying mantis, spider, termite, tick, vermin, yellowjacket |
| Notes: | a bug is a particular kind of insect, specifically belonging to the order Hemiptera (tough leathery forewings attached to the body - like ladybugs, beetles) while insects generally belong to the class Insecta, which have bodies in three segments, usually two pairs or wings and three pairs of legs (like bees, mosquitoes); spiders are not technically insects because they have four pairs of legs insect (from Latin animal insectum) literally meant 'divided animal' or 'cut up or into' from the segments of its body (head, thorax, abdomen) - the common word being 'bug'; insect is any of an extremely large group of small invertebrate animals - and most undergo metamorphosis while bug denotes a special group of insects with beaklike sucking mouth parts and partly membranous forewings one major difference between insect, spider, and crustacean is the antennae; one pair on most insects, none on spiders, and two pairs for crustaceans |
| Main Entry: | kiss |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | touching lips to another |
Synonyms: |
butterfly, caress, embrace, endearment, osculation, peck, salutation, salute, smack*, smooch |
| Main Entry: | kiss |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | touch one's lips to another's |
Synonyms: |
French, blow, brush, butterfly, glance, graze, greet, lip, make out, mush, neck, osculate, peck, pucker up, salute, smack*, smooch |
| Main Entry: | nervousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anxious state |
Synonyms: |
agitation, all-overs, anger, animation, butterflies, cold sweat, creeps, delirium, discomfiture, disquiet, disquietude, dithers, excitability, feverishness, fidgets, flap, fluster*, fuss*, impatience, jitters, jumps, moodiness, neurasthenia, neuroticism, perturbation, quivers, sensitivity, shakes, stage fright, stimulation, stress, tension, timidity, tizzy, to-do, touchiness, trembles, tremulousness, turbulence, uneasiness, willies, worry |
Antonyms: |
calm, calmness, collectedness |
| Main Entry: | smooch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | kiss |
Synonyms: |
French, butterfly, greet, lip, make out, mush, neck, park*, peck, pucker up, smack |
| Main Entry: | trepidation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anxiety, worry |
Synonyms: |
agitation, alarm, apprehension, blue funk, butterflies, cold feet, cold sweat, consternation, creeps, dismay, disquiet, disturbance, dread, emotion, excitement, fear, fright, goose bumps, horror, jitters, nervousness, palpitation, panic, perturbation, shock, terror, trepidity, uneasiness, worriment |
Antonyms: |
calm, contentment, happiness |