Fear

Quick meaning: Fear is a noun meaning (uncountable) A strong, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.

Meaning

(uncountable) A strong, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.

More Meanings

1. (countable) A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone in particular.
2. (countable) Something one is afraid of; the object of one’s fear.
3. (uncountable) Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns.
4. (transitive) To be afraid of (something or someone); to consider or expect (something or someone) with alarm.
5. (intransitive) To feel fear.
6. (intransitive) To worry about, to feel concern for, to be afraid for [with for].
7. (UK, with definite article, "the fear") A feeling of dread and anxiety when waking after drinking a lot of alcohol, wondering what one did while drunk.

Example Sentences

I have a fear of ants.

Spiders are my greatest fear.

Not everybody has the same fears.

He was struck by fear on seeing the snake.

Word Forms

• fears
• fearing
• feared

Synonyms for fear

Depending on context, synonyms include afraidness, terrorize, revere, venerate, dread, hangxiety.

Antonyms for fear

Common opposites include courage, belittle, contemn, bravery, fearlessness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fearfulness, dread, fright, care, concern, venerate.

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