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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | upset |
| Synonyms: | agitation, anxiety, chemistry, disquiet, dyspathy, dysphoria, excitement, ferment, restlessness, uneasiness, unrest |
| Antonyms: | calm |
| Main Entry: | bedlam |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chaotic situation |
| Synonyms: | chaos, clamor, commotion, confusion, din, disquiet, disquietude, furor, hubbub, madhouse, maelstrom, noise, pandemonium, racket, shambles, tumult, turmoil, uproar |
| Antonyms: | calm, peace, quiet |
| Main Entry: | concern |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | interest; anxiety |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, attention, bearing, care, carefulness, concernment, consideration, disquiet, disquietude, distress, heed, heedfulness, important matter, matter, reference, regard, relation, relevance, solicitude, tender loving care, unease, worry |
| Antonyms: | disinterest, unconcern |
| Main Entry: | disquiet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | worry; mental upset |
| Synonyms: | ailment, alarm, angst, anxiety, care, concern, concernment, disquietude, distress, disturbance, fear, ferment, foreboding, fretfulness, inquietude, nervousness, restiveness, restlessness, solicitude, storm, trouble, turmoil, uneasiness, unrest |
| Antonyms: | calm, collectedness, ease, peace |
| Main Entry: | distress |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pain, agony |
| Synonyms: | ache, affliction, anguish, anxiety, bad news, blues, care, concern, cross, dejection, desolation, disappointment, discomfort, disquietude, dolor, embarrassment, grief, headache, heartache, heartbreak, irritation, malaise, misery, mortification, ordeal, pang, perplexity, sadness, shame, sorrow, stew, suffering, throe, torment, torture, trial, tribulation, trouble, twinge, unconsolability, unhappiness, vexation, visitation, woe, worriment, worry, wretchedness |
| Antonyms: | comfort, happiness, health, pleasure |
| 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: | ferment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agitation, uprising |
| Synonyms: | ailment, brouhaha, clamor, commotion, convulsion, disquiet, disquietude, disruption, disturbance, excitement, fever, flap, frenzy, furor, fuss, heat, hell broke loose, hubbub, imbroglio, outcry, restiveness, restlessness, row, rumble, scene, state of unrest, stew, stink*, stir, storm, to-do, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, unrest, upheaval, uproar, upturn |
| Antonyms: | calm, contentedness, happiness, peace, pleasure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | impatience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inability, unwillingness to wait |
| Synonyms: | agitation, anger, annoyance, ants in pants, anxiety, avidity, disquietude, eagerness, edginess, excitement, expectancy, fretfulness, haste, hastiness, heat*, impetuosity, intolerance, irritability, irritableness, nervousness, quick temper, rashness, restiveness, restlessness, shortness, snappiness, suspense, uneasiness, vehemence, violence |
| Antonyms: | control, ease, endurance, forbearance, patience, tolerance, waiting, willingness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | nervousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anxious state |
| Synonyms: | agitation, all-overs, anger, animation, butterflies, cold sweat, creeps, delirium, discomfiture, disquiet, disquietude, dithers, excitability, feverishness, fidgets, flap, fluster*, fuss*, impatience, jitters, jumps, moodiness, neurasthenia, neuroticism, perturbation, quivers, sensitivity, shakes, stage fright, stimulation, stress, tension, timidity, tizzy, to-do, touchiness, trembles, tremulousness, turbulence, uneasiness, willies, worry |
| Antonyms: | calm, calmness, collectedness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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