Thesaurus:fear

Thesaurus

fear

English

Noun

Sense: unpleasant emotion linked to percieved danger

Synonyms

• fear
• afraidness

Antonyms

• courage    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

• affright
• alarm
• anxiety
• apprehension    [⇒ thesaurus]
• awe
• caution    [⇒ thesaurus]
• consternation
• creeps
• dismay
• dread
• foreboding
• fright
• heebie-jeebies
• horror
• nervousness
• panic
• petrification
• phobia
• scare
• scaredness
• tentativeness
• terror    [⇒ thesaurus]
• trepidation
• uneasiness
• wariness
• willies
• worry

Hypernyms

• emotion    [⇒ thesaurus]

Various

• have one's heart in one's boots
• intimidation
• one's heart in one's mouth
• one's heart in one's throat
• sinking feeling
• terrorism

See also

• Thesaurus:afraid
• Thesaurus:cowardly
• Thesaurus:shy

Further reading

• “860. fear” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “fear” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.