fearing

Main Entry:
fear [feer]
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: feel alarm; be scared of
Synonyms: anticipate, apprehend, avoid, be afraid, be anxious, be apprehensive, be disquieted, be frightened, be in awe, blanch, break out in a sweat, cower, crouch, dare not, dread, expect, falter, feel concern, flinch, foresee, fret, have butterflies, have qualms, lose courage, quail, quaver, shrink, shudder, shun, shy, start, suspect, tremble, wilt, worry
Antonyms: brave
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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Adjectives:
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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