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| Main Entry: | fear |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | alarm, apprehension |
| Synonyms: | abhorrence, agitation, angst, anxiety, aversion, awe, bête noire, cold feet*, concern, consternation, cowardice, despair, dismay, disquietude, distress, doubt, dread, foreboding, fright, funk*, horror, jitters, misgiving, nightmare, panic, phobia, presentiment, qualm, reverence, revulsion, scare, suspicion, terror, timidity, tremor, trepidation, uneasiness, worry, chickenheartedness, cold sweat, creeps, discomposure, faintheartedness, recreancy, trembling, unease |
| Antonyms: | bravery, courage, heroism, unconcern, fearlessness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | feel alarm; be scared of |
| Synonyms: | anticipate, apprehend, avoid, blanch, cower, crouch, dread, expect, falter, flinch, foresee, fret, quail, quaver, shrink, shudder, shun, shy, start, suspect, tremble, wilt, worry, be afraid, be anxious, be apprehensive, be disquieted, be frightened, be in awe, break out in a sweat, dare not, feel concern, have butterflies, have qualms, lose courage |
| Antonyms: | brave |
| Main Entry: | awe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | amazement |
| Synonyms: | admiration, apprehension, astonishment, consternation, dread, esteem, fear, fright, horror, regard, respect, reverence, shock, stupefaction, terror, veneration, wonder, wonderment, worship |
| Antonyms: | calmness, coolness, expectation, familiarity, intimacy, steadiness |
| Main Entry: | care |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal interest, concern |
| Synonyms: | affliction, aggravation, alarm, anguish, annoyance, anxiety, apprehension, bother, burden, chagrin, charge, consternation, dismay, disquiet, distress, disturbance, encumbrance, exasperation, fear, foreboding, handicap, hardship, hindrance, impediment, incubus, load, misgiving, nuisance, onus, oppression, pressure, responsibility, solicitude, sorrow, stew, strain, stress, sweat, tribulation, trouble, uneasiness, unhappiness, vexation, woe, worry, discomposure, fretfulness, perplexity |
| Antonyms: | carelessness, disregard, ignorance, inattention, neglect, negligence, oversight, thoughtlessness |
| Main Entry: | cold feet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | loss of nerve preventing completion of an action |
| Synonyms: | anxiety, apprehension, doubt, fear, timidity, yellow streak, backing out, chicken heart, faint heart, fear of carrying out an activity, reservations, second thoughts, weak knees, white feather |
| Main Entry: | complex |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | psychological problem |
| Synonyms: | anxiety, fear, fixation, hang-up*, idée fixe, insanity, mania, neurosis, obsession, phobia, preoccupation, repression, a thing about something, exaggerated reaction, fixed idea |
| Notes: | something complex may be well-organized and logically constructed as well as subtle and intricate, while a thing that is complicated will have something irregular, perverse, asymmetrical in addition to fundamental intricacy; complex is more formal and technical (a problem in mathematics is complex) while something like personal life can be complicated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | consternation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dismay, distress |
| Synonyms: | alarm, amazement, anxiety, awe, bewilderment, confusion, distraction, dread, fear, fright, horror, muddle, panic, shock, stupefaction, terror, trepidation, wonder, muddlement, perplexity, trepidity |
| Antonyms: | calm, composure, happiness, tranquility, peacefulness |
| Main Entry: | cowardice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | timidity |
| Synonyms: | cold feet*, fear, funk, faintheartedness, fearfulness, gutlessness, mousiness, pusillanimity, wimpiness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | desperation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hopelessness |
| Synonyms: | agony, anguish, anxiety, concern, dejection, depression, desolation, despair, despondency, discomfort, distraction, distress, fear, gloom, grief, heartache, melancholy, misery, pain, pang, sorrow, torture, trouble, unhappiness, worry, disconsolateness |
| Antonyms: | confidence, contentment, security |
| Main Entry: | diffidence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hesitancy; lack of confidence |
| Synonyms: | bashfulness, constraint, doubt, fear, hesitation, humility, insecurity, meekness, modesty, reluctance, reserve, shyness, timidity, backwardness, mousiness, self-consciousness, sheepishness, timidness, timorousness, unassertiveness |
| Antonyms: | boldness, confidence |
| Main Entry: | dismay |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disappointed feeling; distress |
| Synonyms: | agitation, alarm, anxiety, apprehension, blue funk, blues*, bummer*, chagrin, cold feet*, consternation, discouragement, downer*, dread, dumps*, fear, fright, funk*, hassle, horror, letdown, panic, terror, trepidation, upset, disheartenment, disillusionment, the blahs |
| Antonyms: | assurance, confidence, encouragement, happiness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disquiet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | worry; mental upset |
| Synonyms: | ailment, alarm, angst, anxiety, care, concern, disquietude, distress, disturbance, fear, ferment, foreboding, nervousness, restlessness, solicitude, storm, trouble, turmoil, uneasiness, unrest, concernment, fretfulness, inquietude, restiveness |
| Antonyms: | calm, ease, peace, collectedness |
| Main Entry: | doubt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack of faith, conviction; questioning |
| Synonyms: | ambiguity, apprehension, confusion, difficulty, diffidence, dilemma, disbelief, discredit, disquiet, distrust, dubiety, faithlessness, fear, hesitancy, hesitation, incertitude, incredulity, indecision, misgiving, mistrust, problem, qualm, quandary, rejection, reluctance, scruple, skepticism, suspense, suspicion, uncertainty, vacillation, wavering, agnosticism, demurral, dubiousness, faltering, irresolution, lack of confidence, perplexity |
| Antonyms: | belief, certainty, confidence, faith, reliance, trust, dependence |
| Main Entry: | doubt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lack confidence in; question |
| Synonyms: | challenge, demur, disbelieve, discredit, dispute, distrust, fear, fluctuate, hesitate, imagine, impugn, insinuate, mistrust, query, scruple, shilly-shally*, surmise, suspect, vacillate, waver, be apprehensive of, be curious, be dubious, be in a quandary, be puzzled, be uncertain, be undetermined, call in question, give no credence, harbor suspicion, have qualms, misdoubt, misgive, not buy, read differently, skepticize, smell a rat, take dim view of, wonder at |
| Antonyms: | believe, rely, trust, be certain, not question |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dread |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | anticipate with horror |
| Synonyms: | apprehend, cringe, fear, quake, shudder, tremble, be afraid, have cold feet, misdoubt, shrink from |
| Antonyms: | encourage, want, welcome |
| Main Entry: | expectation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief, anticipation |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, assumption, assurance, calculation, chance, confidence, conjecture, design, expectancy, fear, forecast, hope, intention, likelihood, motive, notion, outlook, possibility, prediction, presumption, probability, promise, prospect, reliance, supposition, surmise, suspense, trust, view, looking forward |
| Main Entry: | foreboding |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misgiving, bad omen |
| Synonyms: | anxiety, apprehension, augury, chill, dread, fear, funny feeling*, handwriting on the wall, portent, prediction, premonition, presage, presentiment, prophecy, warning, apprehensiveness, bad vibes, foreshadowing, foretoken, forewarning, prenotion, prognostic, sinking feeling, vibes, wind change |
| Antonyms: | fortune, luck, providence, good omen |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fright |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme apprehension |
| Synonyms: | alarm, consternation, dismay, dread, fear, horror, panic, scare, shiver, shock, terror, trepidation, cold sweat, quaking, trepidity |
| Antonyms: | fearlessness |
| Main Entry: | misgiving |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uncertainty |
| Synonyms: | anxiety, apprehension, distrust, doubt, fear, foreboding, hesitation, mistrust, premonition, presage, presentiment, qualm, reservation, scruple, suspicion, worry, apprehensiveness, prenotion, unbelief, unease |
| Antonyms: | certainty, confidence, trust, doubtlessness, sureness |
| Main Entry: | mistrust |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | doubtfulness |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, concern, distrust, doubt, dubiety, fear, foreboding, incertitude, misgiving, presentiment, scruple, skepticism, suspicion, uncertainty, wariness, wonder, chariness, dubiosity |
| Antonyms: | belief, certainty, confidence, faith, trust |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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