Dictionary Entry
fear
fear is a 4-letter English word with 19 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A variant of Fere, a mate, a companion. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 7 · 19 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A variant of Fere, a mate, a companion.
- 2noun
A painful emotion or passion excited by the expectation of evil, or the apprehension of impending danger; apprehension; anxiety; solicitude; alarm; dread.
- 3noun
Apprehension of incurring, or solicitude to avoid, God's wrath; the trembling and awful reverence felt toward the Supreme Belng.
- 4noun
Respectful reverence for men of authority or worth.
- 5noun
That which causes, or which is the object of, apprehension or alarm; source or occasion of terror; danger; dreadfulness.
- 6noun
To feel a painful apprehension of; to be afraid of; to consider or expect with emotion of alarm or solicitude.
- 7noun
To have a reverential awe of; to solicitous to avoid the displeasure of.
- 8noun
To be anxious or solicitous for.
- 9noun
To suspect; to doubt.
- 10noun
To affright; to terrify; to drive away or prevent approach of by fear.
- 11intransitive verb
To be in apprehension of evil; to be afraid; to feel anxiety on account of some expected evil.
- 12noun
an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
Synonyms
- 13noun
a feeling of profound respect for someone or something
"the fear of God"
"the Chinese reverence for the dead"
Synonyms
- 14noun
an anxious feeling
"care had aged him"
"they hushed it up out of fear of public reaction"
- 15verb
regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of
"Fear God as your father"
"We venerate genius"
- 16verb
be afraid or scared of; be frightened of
"I fear the winters in Moscow"
"We should not fear the Communists!"
Synonyms
- 17verb
be uneasy or apprehensive about
"I fear the results of the final exams"
- 18verb
be sorry; used to introduce an unpleasant statement
"I fear I won't make it to your wedding party"
- 19verb
be afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible or probable situation or event
"I fear she might get aggressive"
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