What is another word for fear?
706 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ fˈi͡ə], [ fˈiə], [ f_ˈiə]Table of Contents
Similar words for fear:
- other relevant words (adjective)
- alarm, apprehension (noun)
- amazement (noun)
- awe (noun)
- bugbear (noun)
- care (noun)
- cold feet (noun)
- complex (noun)
- consternation (noun)
- cowardice (noun)
- desperation (noun)
- diffidence (noun)
- dismay (noun)
- disquiet (noun)
- doubt (noun)
- emotion (noun)
- expectation (noun)
- fear (noun)
- foreboding (noun)
- fright (noun)
- ghost (noun)
- gutlessness (noun)
- hopelessness (noun)
- misgiving (noun)
- mistrust (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- phobia (noun)
- presentiment (noun)
- reverence (noun)
- stress (noun)
- superstition (noun)
- uneasiness (noun)
- wonder (noun)
- worry (noun)
- doubt (verb)
- dread (verb)
- emotion (verb)
- feel alarm; be scared of (verb)
- misdoubt (verb)
- mistrust (verb)
- other synonyms
- doubt
- mental disorder
- mistrust
- other relevant words
- suspect
Synonyms for Fear:
adj.
• Other relevant words: (adjective)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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- be-wilderment,
- be wilderment,
- dis-tractions,
- dis tractions,
- dis-traction,
- dis traction,
- trepidities,
- be wilderments,
- muddlements,
- be-wilderments.
- dis-comforts,
- de solations,
- de solation,
- de-solations,
- dis comfort,
- dis-comfort,
- dis comforts,
- disconsolatenesses,
- de-solation.
- 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.
- anger,
- temperment,
- sadness,
- passion,
- hatred,
- emotion,
- mood,
- sentiment,
- excitement,
- sympathy,
- sensation.
- uncertainty,
- contemplation,
- anticipation,
- expectancy,
- pessimism,
- suspense,
- presumption,
- worriment,
- envisioning.
- 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.
- un belief,
- mis giving,
- un-eases,
- un-belief,
- un-ease,
- un eases,
- un-beliefs,
- mis-giving,
- un ease,
- un beliefs.
- 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.
- dis-tastes,
- dis gusts,
- dis gust,
- dis tastes,
- dis-gust,
- dis-taste,
- dis-gusts,
- thing abouts,
- dis taste.
- 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.
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.
- 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.
- fear.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
-
•
- flier.
-
•
- shake.
-
•
- spirit.
- 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.
- past.
Paraphrases for Fear:
Paraphrases are highlighted according to their relevancy:
- highest relevancy
- medium relevancy
- lowest relevancy
-
Equivalence
-
Noun, singular or mass
fright.
-
Noun, singular or mass
-
Forward Entailment
-
Noun, singular or mass
anxiety.
-
Noun, singular or mass
-
Reverse Entailment
-
Noun, singular or mass
apprehension, dread, trepidation.
-
Verb, non-3rd person singular present
dread.
-
Verb, base form
dread.
-
Noun, singular or mass
-
Independent
-
Verb, past tense
assured, frightened, Did.
-
Verb, past tense
-
Other Related
-
Proper noun, singular
Feared.
-
Proper noun, singular
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.
-
feeling
Hyponym for Fear:
Meronym for Fear:
n.
-
feeling
cold sweat.
-
feeling
Word of the Day
make heavy weather
- Synonyms:
- scend.
