Dictionary Entry
bugbear
bugbear is a 7-letter English word with 6 senses as noun, adjective, and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Something frightful, as a specter; anything imaginary that causes needless fright; something used to excite needless fear; also, something really dangerous, used to frighten children, etc. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 16 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Something frightful, as a specter; anything imaginary that causes needless fright; something used to excite needless fear; also, something really dangerous, used to frighten children, etc.
- 2noun
Same as Bugaboo.
- 3adjective
Causing needless fright.
- 4transitive verb
To alarm with idle phantoms.
- 5noun
an object of dread or apprehension--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Germany was always a bugbear for France"
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"
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- 6noun
an imaginary monster used to frighten children
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