fear /fēr/

1. A painful emotion excited by danger
2. Apprehension of danger or pain
3. Alarm
4. Solicitude, anxiety
5. That which causes alarm
6. Risk or possibility
7. Reverence or awe (religion)
8. Piety towards God (old religion)

1. To regard with fear, be afraid of
2. To expect with alarm
3. To be regretfully inclined to think
4. To revere (religion)
5. To be anxious or in fear about (obsolete)
6. To stand in awe of (religion)
7. To venerate (religion)
8. To terrify (obsolete)
9. To make afraid (obsolete)

1. To be afraid
2. To suspect some danger to (with for)
3. (esp in neg) to be in doubt

feared /fērd/ adjective (archaic and Scot)

Afraid (also (Scot) feart /fērt/)

fearˈful adjective

1. Timorous
2. Producing intense fear
3. Terrible
4. Very great, very bad (informal)

fearˈfully adverb

fearˈfulness noun

fearˈless adjective

1. Without fear
2. Daring
3. Brave

fearˈlessly adverb

fearˈlessness noun

fearˈsome adjective

Causing fear, frightful

fearˈsomely adverb

fearˈnought noun

Dreadnought cloth, a thick cloth for overcoats, etc

for fear

In case, lest

for fear of

In order to avoid

• unwieldily
• unwieldiness
• unwieldinesses
• unwieldy
• unwifelier
• unwifeliest
• unwifelike
• unwifely
• unwigged
• unwilful
• unwill
• unwilled
• unwilling
• unwillingly
• unwillingness
• unwillingnesses
• unwills
• unwind
• unwinding
• unwindings
• unwinds
• unwinged
• unwinking
• unwinkingly
• unwinnable