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

1. noun. A variant of Fere, a mate, a companion.
2. noun. A painful emotion or passion excited by the expectation of evil, or the apprehension of impending danger; apprehension; anxiety; solicitude; alarm; dread.
3. noun. Apprehension of incurring, or solicitude to avoid, God's wrath; the trembling and awful reverence felt toward the Supreme Belng.
4. noun. Respectful reverence for men of authority or worth.
5. noun. That which causes, or which is the object of, apprehension or alarm; source or occasion of terror; danger; dreadfulness.
6. noun. To feel a painful apprehension of; to be afraid of; to consider or expect with emotion of alarm or solicitude.
7. noun. To have a reverential awe of; to solicitous to avoid the displeasure of.
8. noun. To be anxious or solicitous for.
9. noun. To suspect; to doubt.
10. noun. To affright; to terrify; to drive away or prevent approach of by fear.
11. intransitive verb. To be in apprehension of evil; to be afraid; to feel anxiety on account of some expected evil.
12. noun. an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)

    Synonyms: fearfulness, fright

13. noun. a feeling of profound respect for someone or something

    "the fear of God"

    "the Chinese reverence for the dead"

    Synonyms: awe, reverence, veneration

14. noun. an anxious feeling

    "care had aged him"

    "they hushed it up out of fear of public reaction"

    Synonyms: care, concern

15. verb. regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of

    "Fear God as your father"

    "We venerate genius"

    Synonyms: revere, reverence, venerate

16. verb. be afraid or scared of; be frightened of

    "I fear the winters in Moscow"

    "We should not fear the Communists!"

    Synonyms: dread

17. verb. be uneasy or apprehensive about

    "I fear the results of the final exams"

18. verb. be sorry; used to introduce an unpleasant statement

    "I fear I won't make it to your wedding party"

19. verb. be afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible or probable situation or event

    "I fear she might get aggressive"

Synonyms

fearfulness, fright, awe, reverence, veneration, care, concern, revere, venerate, dread

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in fear:

afer, fare, frae, rafe

Common word forms

fears, feared, fearer, fearful, fearing, fearable, fearless

Words from these letters

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