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have cold feet - 8 thesaurus results
Main Entry: apprehensive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: anxious, fearful
Synonyms: afraid, alarmed, concerned, doubtful, foreboding, frozen*, hung up*, jittery, jumpy, lily-livered*, shaky*, stiff, suspicious, troubled, uncertain, uneasy, uptight, weak, worried, biting nails, butterflies, disquieted, feel in bones, get vibes, have a hunch, have cold feet, have funny feeling, have stage fright, in a cold sweat, in a dither, in a sweat, jellyfish, mistrustful, running scared, scaredy-cat, worried sick
Antonyms: calm, quiet, unafraid, at ease, undoubting, unfearful, unsuspicious, unworried
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: frightened
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very scared
Synonyms: abashed, afraid, aghast, alarmed, anxious, chicken*, fearful, frozen, hung up*, jittery, jumpy, lily-livered*, mousy*, numb, petrified, shaky, sissy*, startled, terrified, uptight, yellow*, affrighted, butterflies, chicken-hearted, cowed, dismayed, have cold feet, having kittens, in a cold sweat, in a panic, in a sweat, jellyfish, panicky, pushing the panic button, rabbity, running scared, scared stiff, shivery, spooked, terror-stricken, terrorized, unnerved
Antonyms: calm, happy, comforted
Main Entry: phobic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fearful
Synonyms: afraid, anxious, apprehensive, disturbed, frightened, irrational, jittery, jumpy, nervous, neurotic, scared, shy, skittish, tense, worried, discomposed, disquieted, have cold feet, panicky
Main Entry: quail
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: cower, shrink
Synonyms: blanch, cringe, droop, faint, falter, flinch, quake, recoil, shake, shudder, start, tremble, wince, blench, have cold feet
Antonyms: face, meet
Main Entry: afraid
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fearful
Synonyms: abashed, aghast, alarmed, anxious, apprehensive, blanched, cowardly, discouraged, distressed, disturbed, frightened, frozen, horrified, intimidated, nervous, panic-stricken, perplexed, perturbed, petrified, scared, shocked, startled, stunned, suspicious, terrified, timid, timorous, upset, worried, aroused, cowed, daunted, disheartened, dismayed, faint-hearted, have cold feet, in awe, rattled, run scared, scared stiff, scared to death, spooked, terror-stricken, trembling
Antonyms: bold, brave, composed, confident, cool, courageous, fearless, heroic, intrepid, unafraid, undaunted, valiant
Main Entry: fearful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: alarmed, apprehensive
Synonyms: afraid, aghast, agitated, anxious, chicken, diffident, disturbed, fainthearted, frightened, hesitant, intimidated, jittery, jumpy, lily-livered*, mousy, nerveless, nervous, nervy, perturbed, phobic, pusillanimous, scared, shaky, sheepish*, shrinking, shy, skittish, solicitous, spineless, tense, timid, timorous, tremulous, uneasy, unmanly, worried, yellow*, aflutter, chickenhearted, discomposed, disquieted, goose-bumpy, have cold feet, in a dither, panicky, quivery, rabbity, running scared, weak-kneed
Notes: someone may be fearful; someone or something may be fearsome
Antonyms: bold, brave, courageous, unafraid, inapprehensive, unfearful
Main Entry: petrified
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: terrified
Synonyms: afraid, alarmed, anxious, dazed, fearful, frightened, frozen, numb, scared, shocked, speechless, startled, stunned, have cold feet, immobilized, in a cold sweat, in a panic, panicky, pushing the panic button, scared stiff, spooked, terror-stricken, terrorized, unnerved
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