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view the situation with alarm

faced the meeting with dread

fright at being awakened suddenly

the news caused widespread panic

raised the subject with trepidation

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• adj.

  • Other relevant words: (adjective)

  • behaviour,
  • feeling,
  • state.

• n.

  •
  • quail,
  • chicken out,
  • live in fear (of),
  • be/live in dread of,
  • have a horror of (doing) something,
  • in order to prevent,
  • take fright,
  • lest,
  • lose your nerve,
  • quake.
  •
  • fear and trembling.

  • alarm, apprehension (noun)

  • creeps,
  • trembling,
  • concern,
  • faintheartedness,
  • terror,
  • disquietude,
  • abhorrence,
  • Recreancy,
  • jitters,
  • nightmare,
  • chickenheartedness,
  • horror,
  • suspicion,
  • despair,
  • agitation,
  • revulsion,
  • funk,
  • anxiety,
  • qualm,
  • aversion,
  • unease,
  • angst,
  • scare,
  • awe,
  • phobia,
  • tremor,
  • distress,
  • discomposure,
  • misgiving.

  • amazement (noun)

  • wonder.

  • awe (noun)

  • re gards,
  • re-gard.

  • bugbear (noun)

  • boogeymen,
  • loups garous,
  • loupgarou,
  • loupsgarous,
  • loup garou,
  • Loups-garous.

  • care (noun)

  • dis tresses,
  • dis tress,
  • dis-composure,
  • dis-tress,
  • fretfulnesses,
  • dis composure,
  • un happiness,
  • un-happiness,
  • dis-composures,
  • un happinesses,
  • dis-tresses,
  • dis composures,
  • un-happinesses.

  • cold feet (noun)

  • weak knee,
  • backing outs,
  • chicken hearts,
  • faint hearts,
  • fear carrying out activity,
  • fear of carrying out activity,
  • fear carrying out an activity,
  • white feathers,
  • cold-feet.

  • complex (noun)

  • hang up,
  • exaggerated reaction,
  • a thing about something,
  • hangup,
  • fixed idea,
  • obsession.

  • consternation (noun)

  • be-wilderment,
  • be wilderment,
  • dis-tractions,
  • dis tractions,
  • dis-traction,
  • dis traction,
  • trepidities,
  • be wilderments,
  • muddlements,
  • be-wilderments.

  • cowardice (noun)

  • pusillanimity,
  • unmanliness,
  • mousiness,
  • gutlessness,
  • wimpiness.

  • desperation (noun)

  • dis-comforts,
  • de solations,
  • de solation,
  • de-solations,
  • dis comfort,
  • dis-comfort,
  • dis comforts,
  • disconsolatenesses,
  • de-solation.

  • diffidence (noun)

  • timorousness,
  • shyness,
  • in security,
  • unassertiveness,
  • sheepishness,
  • self-consciousness,
  • insecurity.

  • dismay (noun)

  • the blahs,
  • disheartenments,
  • up set,
  • disillusionments,
  • disillusionment,
  • disheartenment,
  • blahs.

  • disquiet (noun)

  • dis-quiet,
  • in-quietude,
  • dis quiets,
  • dis quietudes,
  • in quietude,
  • dis-quietudes,
  • dis-quietude,
  • in-quietudes,
  • un rests,
  • un rest,
  • un-rest,
  • dis quietude,
  • dis quiet,
  • un-rests,
  • in quietudes,
  • dis-quiets.

  • doubt (noun)

  • Uncertainties,
  • scruples,
  • waverings,
  • lack of confidence,
  • scruple,
  • demurral,
  • agnosticism.

  • emotion (noun)

  • anger,
  • temperment,
  • sadness,
  • passion,
  • hatred,
  • emotion,
  • mood,
  • sentiment,
  • excitement,
  • sympathy,
  • sensation.

  • expectation (noun)

  • uncertainty,
  • contemplation,
  • anticipation,
  • expectancy,
  • pessimism,
  • suspense,
  • presumption,
  • worriment,
  • envisioning.

  • fear (noun)

  • revere,
  • intimidation,
  • venerate,
  • spinelessness,
  • fearfulness,
  • apprehension,
  • alarm.

  • foreboding (noun)

  • fore token,
  • pre monitions,
  • fore bodings,
  • fore tokens,
  • pre-sage,
  • sinking feelings,
  • fore warnings,
  • fore-boding,
  • pre-sages,
  • handwriting the wall,
  • fore-shadowing,
  • pre notions,
  • fore-shadowings,
  • pre-notion,
  • fore-warning,
  • handwriting wall,
  • fore shadowings,
  • fore-warnings,
  • fore warning,
  • pre-notions,
  • fore-bodings,
  • fore-tokens,
  • wind changes,
  • fore boding,
  • prenotions,
  • fore-token,
  • pre notion,
  • fore shadowing,
  • apprehensivenesses,
  • bad vibe,
  • pre sage,
  • pre-monition,
  • pre-monitions,
  • pre monition,
  • pre sages.

  • fright (noun)

  • cold sweats,
  • quakings.

  • ghost (noun)

  • bugbear.

  • gutlessness (noun)

  • faint heartedness,
  • faint heartednesses,
  • faint-heartednesses.

  • hopelessness (noun)

  • desperation.

  • misgiving (noun)

  • un belief,
  • mis giving,
  • un-eases,
  • un-belief,
  • un-ease,
  • un eases,
  • un-beliefs,
  • mis-giving,
  • un ease,
  • un beliefs.

  • mistrust (noun)

  • mistrust,
  • Dubiosity.

  • Other relevant words: (noun)

  • presentiment,
  • diffidence,
  • tensity,
  • faint-heartedness,
  • disconsolateness,
  • portent,
  • stew,
  • doubt,
  • thing about,
  • stress,
  • obsequiousness,
  • superstition,
  • respect,
  • chicken heart,
  • bogy,
  • tightness,
  • queasiness,
  • presage,
  • weak knees,
  • vibe,
  • Loup-garou,
  • panic,
  • disquiet,
  • apprehensiveness,
  • foretokens,
  • vibes,
  • dismay,
  • expectation,
  • foreshadowings,
  • fear of carrying out an activity,
  • yellow streak,
  • Butterflies,
  • tribulation,
  • wraith,
  • uneasiness,
  • overextensions,
  • consternation,
  • worry,
  • care,
  • foreboding,
  • tenseness,
  • sinking feeling,
  • stupefaction,
  • timidity,
  • cowardice,
  • tautness,
  • Prenotion,
  • foretoken,
  • boogeyman,
  • fright,
  • cold feet,
  • dyspathy,
  • faint heart,
  • wind change,
  • complex,
  • overextension,
  • muddlement,
  • reverence,
  • high esteem,
  • nervous tension,
  • foreshadowing,
  • encumbrance,
  • bad vibes,
  • Bogies,
  • cold sweat,
  • trepidation,
  • Trepidity,
  • white feather,
  • deification,
  • butterfly,
  • fretfulness.

  • phobia (noun)

  • dis-tastes,
  • dis gusts,
  • dis gust,
  • dis tastes,
  • dis-gust,
  • dis-taste,
  • dis-gusts,
  • thing abouts,
  • dis taste.

  • presentiment (noun)

  • handwriting on wall.

  • reverence (noun)

  • deifications,
  • high esteems,
  • obsequiousnesses.

  • stress (noun)

  • tautnesses,
  • over extension,
  • tensities,
  • tensenesses,
  • pro-traction,
  • over-extension,
  • in tensity,
  • ex-tension,
  • ex tension,
  • nervous tensions,
  • pro-tractions,
  • ex-tensions,
  • pro tractions,
  • pro traction,
  • over extensions,
  • in-tensity,
  • tightnesses,
  • over-extensions.

  • superstition (noun)

  • false belief,
  • unfounded fear.

  • uneasiness (noun)

  • dis content,
  • dis-pleasure,
  • dis pleasure,
  • in-stabilities,
  • un easinesses,
  • dis-content,
  • in-stability,
  • un easiness,
  • un-easiness,
  • dis-pleasures,
  • re morses,
  • dis pleasures,
  • re-morses,
  • queasinesses,
  • in stability,
  • in stabilities,
  • dyspathies,
  • re-morse,
  • un-easinesses,
  • dis-contents,
  • dis contents,
  • re morse.

  • wonder (noun)

  • wonderings.

  • worry (noun)

  • head ache.

• v.

  • doubt (verb)

  • art a quandary,
  • not buying,
  • in sinuate,
  • has qualms,
  • hadst qualms,
  • am undetermined,
  • gave no credence,
  • art uncertain,
  • smelling rat,
  • wert puzzled,
  • reading differently,
  • wert a quandary,
  • are uncertain,
  • dis credited,
  • smelled rat,
  • calls in question,
  • being curious,
  • dis believes,
  • art quandary,
  • hast qualms,
  • were undetermined,
  • being undetermined,
  • were in a quandary,
  • wert apprehensive of,
  • wondered at,
  • wast uncertain,
  • not buys,
  • wert in quandary,
  • are apprehensive of,
  • dis believe,
  • wast dubious,
  • gives no credence,
  • wast puzzled,
  • smelled a rat,
  • being quandary,
  • being in a quandary,
  • in sinuates,
  • was apprehensive of,
  • dis-credited,
  • in-sinuate,
  • are in a quandary,
  • dis believing,
  • wast in a quandary,
  • wast curious,
  • is a quandary,
  • being puzzled,
  • had qualms,
  • was dubious,
  • being uncertain,
  • is puzzled,
  • sur-mises,
  • dis believed,
  • is uncertain,
  • is in quandary,
  • wert curious,
  • took dim view of,
  • sur mises,
  • skepticizing,
  • were a quandary,
  • were quandary,
  • in sinuated,
  • having qualms,
  • wert quandary,
  • mis-gave,
  • are undetermined,
  • sur-mise,
  • reads differently,
  • is apprehensive of,
  • was in quandary,
  • called question,
  • are puzzled,
  • art puzzled,
  • are curious,
  • skepticizes,
  • are dubious,
  • wert undetermined,
  • was in a quandary,
  • skepticized,
  • dis-believed,
  • being dubious,
  • be in quandary,
  • calling in question,
  • dis crediting,
  • was puzzled,
  • dis-trusting,
  • sur mise,
  • smelt a rat,
  • am a quandary,
  • called in question,
  • are a quandary,
  • was uncertain,
  • harboring suspicion,
  • am quandary,
  • are in quandary,
  • shilly shally,
  • being in quandary,
  • am curious,
  • was a quandary,
  • were uncertain,
  • am uncertain,
  • call question,
  • wast quandary,
  • mis gives,
  • haddest qualms,
  • dis-believe,
  • calls question,
  • wast undetermined,
  • art apprehensive of,
  • in-sinuated,
  • mis-gives,
  • smelt rat,
  • smell rat,
  • were curious,
  • wast a quandary,
  • mis-give,
  • being a quandary,
  • art curious,
  • wert dubious,
  • in sinuating,
  • be quandary,
  • smells a rat,
  • in-sinuates,
  • was curious,
  • is dubious,
  • being apprehensive of,
  • harbors suspicion,
  • smells rat,
  • mis gave,
  • were apprehensive of,
  • dis trusting,
  • harbored suspicion,
  • wert uncertain,
  • calling question,
  • wast in quandary,
  • hath qualms,
  • am dubious,
  • art undetermined,
  • takes dim view of,
  • wert in a quandary,
  • wondering at,
  • wonders at,
  • dis-trusted,
  • dis trusted,
  • am puzzled,
  • is in a quandary,
  • mis give,
  • was undetermined,
  • is quandary,
  • are quandary,
  • dis-believes,
  • was quandary,
  • in-sinuating,
  • giving no credence,
  • be a quandary,
  • dis-believing,
  • were puzzled,
  • is curious,
  • taking dim view of,
  • not bought,
  • art in a quandary,
  • dis-crediting,
  • am apprehensive of,
  • is undetermined,
  • mis given,
  • were in quandary,
  • were dubious,
  • am in a quandary,
  • art in quandary,
  • mis-given,
  • wast apprehensive of.

  • dread (verb)

  • was afraid,
  • hadst cold feet,
  • were afraid,
  • wast afraid,
  • shrinks from,
  • hast cold feet,
  • being afraid,
  • are afraid,
  • am afraid,
  • haddest cold feet,
  • shrunk from,
  • art afraid,
  • shrinking from,
  • shrank from,
  • has cold feet,
  • had cold feet,
  • wert afraid,
  • hath cold feet.

  • emotion (verb)

  • fear.

  • feel alarm; be scared of (verb)

  • falter,
  • be in awe,
  • expect,
  • shrink,
  • be frightened,
  • fret,
  • anticipate,
  • feel concern,
  • shy,
  • suspect,
  • have butterflies,
  • shun,
  • be disquieted,
  • flinch,
  • apprehend,
  • be anxious,
  • shudder,
  • blanch,
  • lose courage,
  • cower,
  • dare not,
  • avoid,
  • be apprehensive,
  • crouch,
  • wilt,
  • break out in a sweat,
  • quaver,
  • foresee,
  • start.

  • misdoubt (verb)

  • had one’s doubts,
  • haddest one doubts,
  • mis-doubted,
  • hadst ones doubts,
  • have one doubts,
  • mis-doubts,
  • hath one’s doubts,
  • have ones doubts,
  • mis doubt,
  • had ones doubts,
  • mis doubting,
  • mis-doubting,
  • mis-doubt,
  • hast one’s doubts,
  • mis doubts,
  • having ones doubts,
  • has one doubts,
  • had one doubts,
  • has ones doubts,
  • hath one doubts,
  • has one’s doubts,
  • having one doubts,
  • hast ones doubts,
  • hadst one’s doubts,
  • haddest ones doubts,
  • hadst one doubts,
  • having one’s doubts,
  • hast one doubts,
  • haddest one’s doubts,
  • mis doubted,
  • hath ones doubts.

  • mistrust (verb)

  • has doubts,
  • hath doubts,
  • having doubts,
  • is wary,
  • mis trusted,
  • be-wares,
  • are wary,
  • be wares,
  • mis-trusted,
  • hast doubts,
  • was wary,
  • be wared,
  • be-waring,
  • wast wary,
  • mis-trusting,
  • haddest doubts,
  • be-wared,
  • were wary,
  • be waring,
  • had doubts,
  • mis trusting,
  • wert wary,
  • hadst doubts,
  • art wary,
  • be-ware,
  • being wary,
  • be ware,
  • am wary.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • dire,
  • yellow,
  • afraid,
  • hero,
  • startle,
  • wariness,
  • frighten,
  • shiver,
  • appalling,
  • chicken,
  • bold,
  • stout,
  • ghastly,
  • flap,
  • valiant,
  • unearthly,
  • wobble,
  • tension,
  • prowess.
  •
  • dreadful,
  • calculation,
  • terrific,
  • stake,
  • strike,
  • frightful,
  • tremendous,
  • cowardly,
  • tremble,
  • formidable.
  •
  • hardy,
  • heart,
  • creep,
  • exposure.
  •
  • crawl,
  • plague.
  •
  • flier.
  •
  • shake.
  •
  • spirit.

  • doubt

  • be apprehensive of,
  • be in a quandary,
  • be puzzled,
  • be undetermined,
  • give no credence,
  • Skepticize,
  • misgive,
  • Hesitated,
  • have qualms,
  • be curious,
  • smell a rat,
  • Fearing,
  • misgives,
  • smelling a rat,
  • read differently,
  • be uncertain,
  • Misgiven,
  • take dim view of,
  • Misdoubt,
  • be dubious,
  • harbor suspicion,
  • wonder at,
  • call in question,
  • shillyshally,
  • Misgave,
  • not buy,
  • Feared,
  • doubting.

  • mental disorder

  • paranoia.

  • mistrust

  • suspicioned,
  • suspicioning,
  • have doubts,
  • be wary.

  • Other relevant words:

  • is afraid,
  • have cold feet,
  • having cold feet,
  • have one’s doubts,
  • be afraid,
  • shrink from,
  • dread.

  • suspect

  • past.

How to use «Fear» in context?

Fear is an emotion that is generally associated with the sensation of being afraid. It is the emotional reaction to the perception of danger, typically involving the threat of harm.

Paraphrases for Fear:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    fright.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    anxiety.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    apprehension, dread, trepidation.
  • Verb, past tense
    panicked, scared.
  • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
    dread.
  • Verb, base form
    dread.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    alarm, astonishment, awe, danger, risk, shakes.
  • Verb, past tense
    assured, frightened, Did.
  • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
    are, believe, regret, AM.
  • Verb, base form
    alarm, believe, frighten.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    Feared.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    angst, anguish, horror, intimidation, phobia, scared, terror.

Homophones for Fear:

• february 2, fir, faerie, free, frau, far, faery, Ferrara, frier, frore, fever, faro, frey, fri, fur, ferry, freyr, fire, furrow, favour, friar, furor, farrow, favor, freeware, fury, furry, fore, faraway, fair, fairy, feifer, february 29, fibre, foray, fiery, fewer, fiver, friary, furore, fry, foyer, fairway, fibber, fryer, fare, frye, february 22, february 12, furrier, farrier, fiber, february, fourier, feria, freya, fr, fray, four, FIER, february 14, freeway.

Hypernym for Fear:

• n.

  • feeling
    affright, terror, consternation, intimidation, frisson, tingle, timidity, quiver, panic attack, timorousness, apprehension, chill, shudder, shiver, dismay, horror, timidness, thrill, creeps, panic, dread, apprehensiveness, stage fright, scare, alarm, hysteria.

Hyponym for Fear:

• n.

  • feeling
    emotion.

• v.

  • emotion
    regret, worry.

Meronym for Fear:

• n.

  • feeling
    cold sweat.

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Synonyms:

abate,
calm down,
check,
contract,
crumble,
curb,
curtail,
cut down,
decay,
decline.

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