| Main Entry: | funk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fear, depression |
Synonyms: |
alarm, cold sweat, despondency, fright, gloom, misery, panic, trembling |
Antonyms: |
happiness, joy |
| Main Entry: | chicken |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person afraid to try something |
Synonyms: |
coward, craven, dastard, funk, poltroon, quitter, recreant, scaredy cat, yellow belly |
| Main Entry: | coward |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is scared, easily intimidated |
Synonyms: |
alarmist, baby*, caitiff, chicken heart, chicken liver, chicken*, craven, cur, dastard, deserter, faint-of-heart, faintheart, fraidy-cat, funk, gutless, invertebrate, jellyfish, lily liver, malingerer, mouse, pessimist, poltroon, quitter, rabbit, recreant, scaredy cat, shirk, shirker, skulker, sneak, weakling, white liver, wimp*, yellow belly, yellow* |
Antonyms: |
aggressor, hero |
| Main Entry: | cowardice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | timidity |
Synonyms: |
cold feet, faintheartedness, fear, fearfulness, funk, gutlessness, mousiness, pusillanimity, wimpiness |
| 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, disheartenment, disillusionment, downer, dread, dumps, fear, fright, funk, hassle, horror, letdown, panic, terror, the blahs, trepidation, upset |
Antonyms: |
assurance, confidence, encouragement, happiness |
| Main Entry: | doldrums |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | depression |
Synonyms: |
apathy, black mood, blahs, blue funk, blues, boredom, bummer, dejection, disinterest, dismals, downer, dullness, dumps, ennui, funk, gloom, inactivity, indifference, inertia, lassitude, letdown, listlessness, malaise, mopes, slump, stagnation, stupor, tedium, torpor, yawn |
Antonyms: |
elation, gladness, glee, happiness, joy |
| Main Entry: | dread |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fear |
Synonyms: |
affright, alarm, apprehension, aversion, awe, cold feet, consternation, creeps, dismay, fright, funk, goose bumps, horror, jitters, panic, phobia, stage fright, terror, trepidation, trepidity, worriment |
Antonyms: |
bravery, confidence, courage, encouragement, want, welcoming |
| Main Entry: | fail |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | abandon, forsake |
Synonyms: |
abort, back out, blink, break one's word, desert, disappoint, discount, disregard, fault, forget, funk, go astray, ignore, let down, miscarry, neglect, omit, overlook, overpass, slight, slip |
Antonyms: |
capture, complete, deliver, finish, obtain, procure |
| Main Entry: | fear |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | alarm, apprehension |
Synonyms: |
abhorrence, agitation, angst, anxiety, aversion, awe, bête noire, chickenheartedness, cold feet, cold sweat, concern, consternation, cowardice, creeps, despair, discomposure, dismay, disquietude, distress, doubt, dread, faintheartedness, foreboding, fright, funk, horror, jitters, misgiving, nightmare, panic, phobia, presentiment, qualm, recreancy, reverence, revulsion, scare, suspicion, terror, timidity, trembling, tremor, trepidation, unease, uneasiness, worry |
Antonyms: |
bravery, courage, fearlessness, heroism, unconcern |
| Main Entry: | melancholy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | depression, sadness |
Synonyms: |
blahs, blue devils, blue funk, blues, boredom, bummer, dejection, despair, desperation, despondency, dismals, dolefuls, dolor, down trip, downer, dumps, ennui, funk, gloom, gloominess, grief, letdown, low spirits, miserableness, misery, mopes, mournfulness, pensiveness, sorrow, tedium, unhappiness, wistfulness, woe, wretchedness |
Antonyms: |
cheer, happiness, joy |