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/ˈfɪə/ · noun
(uncountable) A strong, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat..
He was struck by fear on seeing the snake.
I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed.
Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.
Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
Not everybody has the same fears.
I have a fear of ants.
Spiders are my greatest fear.
The feare of the Lord is the beginning of wisedome.
Use f.e.a.r. when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
F.e.a.r. means (uncountable) A strong, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat..
Common synonyms include fear, afraidness, be afraid of, be frightened of.
Possible antonyms include courage, belittle, contemn, bravery.
He was struck by fear on seeing the snake.
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