nnoun.feelingfearful expectation or anticipationSynset:apprehension apprehensiveness
Examples:- the student looked around the examination room with apprehension
Derivationally Related Form:apprehenddreadapprehensive
Hypernyms:fear fearfulness fright
Inherited Hypernyms:apprehensionfearemotionfeelingstateattributeabstractionentity
Direct Hyponyms:bodingchillforebodinggloomgloominesspallpremonitionpresentimentsombernesssombrenesssuspensetrepidation
Full Hyponyms:chillforebodinggloompresageshadowsuspensetrepidation
vverb.emotionbe afraid or scared of; be frightened ofSynset:fear
Examples:- I fear the winters in Moscow
- We should not fear the Communists!
Derivationally Related Form:feardread
Inherited Hypernyms:fear
Direct Hyponyms:panic
Full Troponyms:freak outpanic
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | Somebody ---s somebody | Somebody ---s to INFINITIVE | Sam cannot --- Sue (apply to: dread, fear)
adj satadj.allcausing fear or dread or terrorSynset:awful dire direful dreaded dreadful fearful fearsome frightening horrendous horrific terrible
Examples:- the awful war
- an awful risk
- dire news
- a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked
- the dread presence of the headmaster
- polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was
- a dreadful storm
- a fearful howling
- horrendous explosions shook the city
- a terrible curse
Antonyms:unalarming
Derivationally Related Form:terriblenessdreadawfulness
Inherited Hypernyms:awful
Similar to:alarming