Misgiving

Quick meaning: Misgiving is a noun meaning Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread.

Meaning

Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread.

Example Sentences

He could think of her being there, without a lurking misgiving that it would have been better if she had not come.

In the night, or the gloomy chambers of the day, fears and misgivings wax strong, but out in the sunlight there is, for a time, cessation even of the terror of death.

The history of cast iron in railway bridges is much more grimly chequered. Brunel's misgivings were proved prudent, tragically, in the 1879 failure of Thomas Bouch's Tay bridge (once a monument to cast iron, now a memorial to many lives lost).

Having got its Act, the M.B.M. & M.J.R. apparently had misgivings about the route, in view of the very heavy engineering works that would be necessary, and on November 9, 1846, the company gave notice of a further bill for a deviated line, which was passed into law on July 22, 1847.

Word Forms

• misgivings

Synonyms for misgiving

Depending on context, synonyms include doubt, apprehension, suspicion, qualm, distrust, scruple.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include scruple, qualm, suspicion, distrust, mistrust, apprehension.

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