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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | worrisome |
| Synonyms: | formidable, redoubtable |
| Antonyms: | unfeared |
| Concept: | Fear. |
| Category: | 3. Prospective Affections |
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-nouns
fear, timidity, diffidence, want of confidence; apprehensiveness, fearfulness; solicitude, anxiety, care, apprehension, misgiving; feeze [U.S.]; mistrust (doubt); suspicion, qualm; hesitation (irresoluion)., nervousness, restlessness; inquietude, disquietude; batophobia; heartquake; flutter, trepidation, fear and trembling, perturbation, tremor, quivering, shaking, trembling, throbbing heart, palpitation, ague fit, cold sweat; abject fear (cowardice); mortal funk, heartsinking, despondency; despair., fright; affright, affrightment; boof [U.S.] alarm, dread, awe, terror, horror, dismay, consternation, panic, scare, stampede [of horses]., intimidation, terrorism, reign of terror., [Object of fear] bug bear, bugaboo; scarecrow; hobgoblin (demon); nightmare, Gorgon, mormo, ogre, Hurlothrumbo, raw head and bloody bones, fee-faw-fum, bete noire, enfant terrible., alarmist (coward).
-verbs
fear, stand in awe of; be affraid; have qualms; apprehend, sit upon thorns, eye askance; distrust (disbelieve)., hesitate (be irresolute); falter, funk, cower, crouch; skulk (cowardice); let " I dare not" wait upon "I would "; take fright, take alarm; start, wince, flinch, shy, shrink; fly (avoid)., tremble, shake; shiver, shiver in one's shoes; shudder, flutter; shake like an aspen leaf, tremble like an aspen leaf, tremble all over; quake, quaver, quiver, quail., grow pale, turn pale; blench, stand aghast; not dare to say one's soul is one's own., inspire fear, excite fear, inspire awe, excite awe; raise apprehensions; be in a daze, bulldoze [U.S.]; faze, feeze [U.S.]; give an alarm, raise an alarm, sound an alarm; alarm, startle, scare, cry "wolf," disquiet, dismay; fright, frighten, terrify; astound; fright from one's propriety; fright out of one's senses, fright out of one's wits, fright out of one's seven senses; awe; strike all of a heap, strike an awe into, strike terror; harrow up the soul, appall, unman, petrify, horrify; pile on the agony., make one's flesh creep, make one's hair stand on end, make one's blood run cold, make one's teeth chatter; take away one's breath, stop one's breath; make one tremble, haunt; prey on the mind, weigh on the mind., put in fear, put in bodily fear; terrorize, intimidate, cow, daunt, overawe, abash, deter, discourage; browbeat, bully; threaten.
-adjectives
fearing; frightened; in fear, in a fright; haunted with the fear of; afeard., afraid, fearful; timid, timorous; nervous, diffident, coy, faint-hearted, tremulous, shaky, afraid of one's shadow, apprehensive, restless, fidgety; more frightened than hurt., aghast; awe-stricken, horror-stricken, terror-stricken, panic- stricken, awestruck, awe-stricken, horror-strruck; frightened to death, white as a sheet; pale, pale as a ghost, pale as death, pale as ashes; breathless, in hysterics., inspiring fear; alarming; formidable, redoubtable; perilous (danger); portentous; fearful; dread, dreadful; fell; dire, direful; shocking; terrible, terrific; tremendous; horrid, horrible, horrific; ghastly; awful, awe-inspiring; revolting (painful); Gorgonian.
-adverbs
in terrorem.
-phrases
ante tubam trepidat; horresco referens, one's heart failing one, obstupui steteruntque comae et vox.faucibus haesit [Vergil].
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| Antonyms: | courage |
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| 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: | dread |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | anticipate with horror |
| Synonyms: | apprehend, be afraid, cringe, fear, have cold feet, misdoubt, quake, shrink from, shudder, tremble |
| Antonyms: | encourage, want, welcome |
| Main Entry: | mistrust |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | doubt |
| Synonyms: | apprehend, be wary, beware, challenge, disbelieve, dispute, distrust, fear, have doubts, question, scruple, suspect, suspicion |
| 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: | be certain, believe, have faith, trust |
| Main Entry: | misdoubt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | doubt |
| 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 one's doubts, have qualms, hesitate, imagine, impugn, insinuate, misgive, mistrust, not buy, query, question, read differently, scruple, shilly-shally, skepticize, smell a rat, surmise, suspect, take dim view of, vacillate, waver, wonder, wonder at |
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| Main Entry: | doubt |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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abroad, adrift, afraid to say, ambiguous, ancipitous, apocryphal, astray, at a loss, at a nonplus, at fault, at one's wit's end, at sea, casual, changeable, confused, contingent, contingent on, controvertible, debatable, deceptive, dependent on, dependent on circumstances, disputable, distracted, distraught, distrustful of, doubtful, doubting, dubious, enigmatic, equivocal, evasive, experimental, fallacious, fallible, false, fine-spun, hard to believe, hypothetical, ignorant, illusive, illusory, in a cloud, in a maze, in a state of uncertainty, in question, in suspense, inconceivable, incredible, incredulous as to, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, jesuitical, lost, mebby-scales, minimifidian, mystic, not to be believed, occasional, open to discussion, open to doubt, open to suspicion, oracular, out of one's reckoning, overrefined, paradoxical, perplexing, pettifogging, plausible, plausive, precarious, problematical, puzzled, questionable, quibbling, shy of, skeptical as to, slippery, sophistical, specious, staggering, subject to, suspect, suspicious, suspicious of, ticklish, unascertained, unauthentic, unauthenticated, unauthoritative, unbelieving, uncertain, unconfirmed, uncounted, undecided, undefinable, undefined, undemonstrable, undemonstrated, undeserving of belief, undetermined, unreliable, unsettled, untold, untrustworthy, unworthy of belief, vague
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