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| 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: | angst |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feeling of anxiety |
| Synonyms: | agony, apprehension, blues, depression, dread, misgiving, nervousness, uneasiness, Weltschmerz, mid-life crisis |
| Main Entry: | anxiety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | worry, tension |
| Synonyms: | angst, apprehension, care, concern, disquiet, disquietude, distress, doubt, downer*, drag*, dread, flap*, foreboding, fuss, goose bumps*, jitters, misery, misgiving, mistrust, nervousness, panic, pins and needles, restlessness, solicitude, suffering, suspense, sweat*, trouble, uncertainty, uneasiness, watchfulness, all-overs, ants in pants, botheration, butterflies, cold sweat, creeps, fidgets, fretfulness, heebie-jeebies, jumps, nail-biting, needles, shakes, shivers, unease, willies, worriment |
| Antonyms: | assurance, calmness, composure, contentment, ease, happiness, nonchalance, peace, tranquility |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | compunction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | regret, sorrow |
| Synonyms: | attrition, conscience, contrition, misgiving, penitence, pity, qualm, reluctance, remorse, repentance, rue, ruth, shame, sympathy, penitency, punctiliousness, second thoughts, stab of conscience |
| Antonyms: | defiance, meanness, no remorse |
| Main Entry: | distrust |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack of faith in something |
| Synonyms: | disbelief, doubt, misgiving, mistrust, qualm, question, skepticism, suspicion, wariness, misdoubt |
| Notes: | to distrust is to suspect someone is dishonest; to mistrust is to merely lack confidence in someone mistrust involves a withholding of confidence, whereas distrust involves a projection of lack of confidence or suspicion |
| Antonyms: | assurance, belief, certainty, confidence, credit, faith, surety, trust |
| 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: | 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: | hesitation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | waiting; uncertainty |
| Synonyms: | delay, delaying, doubt, dubiety, equivocation, fluctuation, hesitancy, indecision, indisposition, misgiving, mistrust, oscillation, pause, qualm, reluctance, scruple, skepticism, vacillation, wavering, averseness, dawdling, demurral, faltering, fumbling, hemming and hawing, indecisiveness, irresolution, procrastination, stammering, stumbling, stuttering, unwillingness |
| Antonyms: | certainty, eagerness, go, perseverance, sureness |
| Main Entry: | hunch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feeling, idea |
| Synonyms: | anticipation, apprehension, auguration, augury, boding, clue, expectation, feeling in one's bones, foreboding, forecast, foreknowledge, forewarning, forewisdom, funny feeling*, glimmer, hint, impression, inkling, instinct, intuition, misgiving, notion, omination, portent, preapprehension, precognition, preconceived notion, premonition, prenotation, prenotice, presage, presagement, prescience, presentiment, qualm, suspicion, thought |
| Antonyms: | proof, reality, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | premonition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feeling that an event is about to occur |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, feeling, foreboding, funny feeling, hunch, idea, intuition, misgiving, omen, portent, presage, presentiment, sign, suspicion, warning, apprehensiveness, feeling in bones, forewarning, handwriting on wall, prenotion, sinking feeling, vibes, vibrations, wind change, winds, winds of change, worriment |
| Main Entry: | presage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prediction, indication |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, augury, forecast, harbinger, intimation, misgiving, omen, portent, premonition, presentiment, prophecy, sign, warning, apprehensiveness, auspice, bodement, boding, foretoken, forewarning, prenotion, prognostic, prognostication |
| Main Entry: | presentiment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anticipation, expectation |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, disquietude, disturbance, fear, feeling, foreboding, forecast, forethought, funny feeling*, hunch, intuition, misgiving, perturbation, premonition, presage, apprehensiveness, discomposure, feeling in bones, handwriting on wall, prenotion, sinking feeling, vibes, worriment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | qualm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nagging doubt |
| Synonyms: | agitation, anxiety, apprehension, compunction, conscience, demur, disquiet, foreboding, hesitation, indecision, insecurity, misgiving, mistrust, nervousness, objection, pang, perturbation, presentiment, regret, reluctance, remonstrance, remorse, scruple, suspicion, twinge, uncertainty, uneasiness, misdoubt, unease |
| Antonyms: | approval, comfort, contentedness |
| Main Entry: | regret |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | upset over past action |
| Synonyms: | affliction, anguish, annoyance, apology, bitterness, care, compunction, concern, conscience, contrition, demur, disappointment, discomfort, dissatisfaction, dole, grief, heartache, heartbreak, misgiving, nostalgia, pang, penitence, qualm, remorse, repentance, scruple, sorrow, uneasiness, woe, worry, apologies, lamentation, regretfulness, ruefulness, self-accusation, self-condemnation, self-disgust, self-reproach |
| Antonyms: | happiness, satisfaction, contentedness |
| Main Entry: | uncertainty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | doubt, changeableness |
| Synonyms: | ambiguity, ambivalence, anxiety, bewilderment, concern, confusion, conjecture, contingency, dilemma, disquiet, distrust, dubiety, hesitancy, hesitation, incertitude, indecision, misgiving, mistrust, oscillation, puzzle, qualm, quandary, query, reserve, scruple, skepticism, suspicion, trouble, uneasiness, vagueness, wonder, worry, doubtfulness, guesswork, inconclusiveness, irresolution, lack of confidence, mystification, perplexity, puzzlement, questionableness, unpredictability |
| Antonyms: | certainty, security, definiteness, sureness |
| Main Entry: | worry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anxiety, trouble |
| Synonyms: | anguish, annoyance, apprehension, bad news*, care, concern, disquiet, distress, disturbance, doubt, fear, headache*, heartache*, irritation, misery, misgiving, nag*, pain*, pest, plague, presentiment, problem, torment, torture, trial, uncertainty, uneasiness, vexation, woe, perplexity, worriment |
| Antonyms: | calmness, reassurance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | apprehension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anxiety, fear |
| Synonyms: | alarm, concern, disquiet, doubt, dread, foreboding, misgiving, mistrust, premonition, presage, presentiment, suspicion, trepidation, uneasiness, worry, apprehensiveness |
| Antonyms: | calmness, ease |
| 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: | gloom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | melancholy, depression |
| Synonyms: | anguish, bitterness, blue devils, blue funk, blues*, chagrin, dejection, desolation, despair, despondency, discouragement, distress, doldrums, dolor, dullness, dumps*, foreboding, grief, heaviness, horror, malaise, misery, misgiving, mourning, oppression, pessimism, sadness, sorrow, unhappiness, vexation, weariness, woe, catatonia, cheerlessness, disconsolateness, dismals, downheartedness, heavy-heartedness, low spirits, mopes, morbidity, pensiveness, saturninity |
| Antonyms: | animation, cheer, encouragement, happiness, joy, sparkle, contentedness, vivaciousness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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