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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misgiving, bad omen |
| Synonyms: | anxiety, apprehension, apprehensiveness, augury, bad vibes, chill, dread, fear, foreshadowing, foretoken, forewarning, funny feeling, handwriting on the wall, portent, prediction, premonition, prenotion, presage, presentiment, prognostic, prophecy, sinking feeling, vibes, warning, wind change |
| Notes: | forbidding means harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance, while foreboding is a feeling of evil to come |
| Antonyms: | fortune, good omen, luck, providence |
| Main Entry: | anticipation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | readiness; forethought |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, awareness, foreboding, forecast, foreseeing, foresight, foretaste, forethought, inkling, intuition, preconception, premonition, prescience, presentiment, prevision, prior knowledge, realization |
| Antonyms: | doubt, unreadiness |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | apprehensive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | anxious, fearful |
| Synonyms: | afraid, alarmed, biting nails, butterflies, concerned, disquieted, doubtful, feel in bones, foreboding, frozen*, get vibes, have a hunch, have cold feet, have funny feeling, have stage fright, hung up, in a cold sweat, in a dither, in a sweat, jellyfish, jittery, jumpy, lily-livered, mistrustful, running scared, scaredy-cat, shaky*, stiff, suspicious, troubled, uncertain, uneasy, uptight, weak, worried, worried sick |
| Antonyms: | at ease, calm, quiet, unafraid, undoubting, unfearful, unsuspicious, unworried |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | baleful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | menacing |
| Synonyms: | calamitous, deadly, dire, evil, foreboding, harmful, hurtful, injurious, malevolent, malignant, noxious, ominous, pernicious, ruinous, sinister, threatening, venomous, vindictive, woeful |
| Notes: | something is baleful that intends or portends harm or injury; something is baneful that produces harm or injury - thus, a glance may be baleful, an herb or poison baneful |
| Antonyms: | advantageous, auspicious, favorable, good, helping, promising |
| Main Entry: | black |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hopeless |
| Synonyms: | atrocious, bleak, depressing, depressive, dismal, dispiriting, distressing, doleful, dreary, foreboding, funereal, gloomy, horrible, lugubrious, mournful, ominous, oppressive, sad, sinister, sombre, threatening |
| Antonyms: | hopeful, optimistic |
| 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: | dark |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | grim, hopeless |
| Synonyms: | bleak, cheerless, dismal, doleful, drab, foreboding, gloomy, joyless, morbid, morose, mournful, ominous, sinister, somber, unpropitious |
| Antonyms: | bright, brilliant, encouraging, hopeful, shining |
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