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misgiving

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Main Entry: misgiving
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: uncertainty

Synonyms:

anxiety, apprehension, apprehensiveness, distrust, doubt, fear, foreboding, hesitation, mistrust, premonition, prenotion, presage, presentiment, qualm, reservation, scruple, suspicion, unbelief, unease, worry

Antonyms:

certainty, confidence, doubtlessness, sureness, trust
Main Entry: angst
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: feeling of anxiety

Synonyms:

Weltschmerz, agony, apprehension, blues, depression, dread, mid-life crisis, misgiving, nervousness, uneasiness
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: apprehension
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: anxiety, fear

Synonyms:

alarm, apprehensiveness, concern, disquiet, doubt, dread, foreboding, misgiving, mistrust, premonition, presage, presentiment, suspicion, trepidation, uneasiness, worry

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, discomposure, dismay, disquiet, distress, disturbance, encumbrance, exasperation, fear, foreboding, fretfulness, handicap, hardship, hindrance, impediment, incubus, load, misgiving, nuisance, onus, oppression, perplexity, pressure, responsibility, solicitude, sorrow, stew, strain, stress, sweat, tribulation, trouble, uneasiness, unhappiness, vexation, woe, worry

Antonyms:

carelessness, disregard, ignorance, inattention, neglect, negligence, oversight, thoughtlessness
Main Entry: compunction
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: regret, sorrow

Synonyms:

attrition, conscience, contrition, misgiving, penitence, penitency, pity, punctiliousness, qualm, reluctance, remorse, repentance, rue, ruth, second thoughts, shame, stab of conscience, sympathy

Antonyms:

defiance, meanness, no remorse
Main Entry: distrust
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: lack of faith in something

Synonyms:

disbelief, doubt, misdoubt, misgiving, mistrust, qualm, question, skepticism, suspicion, wariness
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:

agnosticism, ambiguity, apprehension, confusion, demurral, difficulty, diffidence, dilemma, disbelief, discredit, disquiet, distrust, dubiety, dubiousness, faithlessness, faltering, fear, hesitancy, hesitation, incertitude, incredulity, indecision, irresolution, lack of confidence, misgiving, mistrust, perplexity, problem, qualm, quandary, rejection, reluctance, scruple, skepticism, suspense, suspicion, uncertainty, vacillation, wavering

Antonyms:

belief, certainty, confidence, dependence, faith, reliance, trust
Main Entry: doubt
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: lack confidence in; question

Synonyms:

be apprehensive of, be curious, be dubious, be in a quandary, be puzzled, be uncertain, be undetermined, call in question, challenge, demur, disbelieve, discredit, dispute, distrust, fear, fluctuate, give no credence, harbor suspicion, have qualms, hesitate, imagine, impugn, insinuate, misdoubt, misgive, mistrust, not buy, query, read differently, scruple, shilly-shally, skepticize, smell a rat, surmise, suspect, take dim view of, vacillate, waver, wonder at

Antonyms:

be certain, believe, not question, rely, trust
Main Entry: fear
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: alarm, apprehension

Synonyms:

abhorrence, agitation, angst, anxiety, aversion, awe, bĂȘte 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
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