Fear

Noun

 * 1)  A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.
 * 2)  A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone.
 * 3)  Extreme veneration or awe, as toward a supreme being or deity.

Verb

 * 1)  To feel fear about (something).
 * 2)  To venerate; to feel awe towards.
 * 3)  Regret

Adjective

 * 1)  Able; capable; stout; strong; sound.

Adjectives for Fear
irrational; surging; sharp; mortal; deadly; supernatural; troubling; unnerving; predominant; anguished; superstitious; unspoken; ghastly; servile; abysmal; lingering; clutching; lurking; fretful; foolish; bashful; childlike; oppressive; nagging; maiden; rising; exaggerated; trembling; horrible; incredible; reverential; unreasonable; haunting; depressive; pathological; scrupulous; spiritual; morbid; ghostly; prudent; dreadful; lessening; natural; vague; numbing; perpetual; general; feminine; hurtful; impatient; premonitory; growing; momentary; various (plural); nameless; slight; pious; never-buried; secret; recanting; specific; universal; strange; excessive; holy; bloodless; slavish; inextinguishable; age-old; terrible; physical; conflicting; faint-footed; prophetic; grim; pleasing; devouring; tormenting; pitiable; distressing; tender; gloomy; distracted; idiotic; incomprehensible; continual; groundless; petrified; nervous; helpless; anxious; savage; primitive; uneasy; unutterable; remorseless; unaccountable; respectful; inexpressible; unnamed; shuddering; startling; trivial; shivering; yearning; dark; paltry; mysterious; dominant; crushing; scarce-hidden; jealous; stark; harrowing; palpitating; phantasmal; mutual; sneaking; conjectural; prodigious; womanly; unaccustomed; indefinable; hideous; chilling; mingled; wonted; ghoulish; political; sweeping; degrading;

Verbs for Fear
allay—; banish—; beset by—; bespeak—; brush aside—; counteract—; curtail—; dismiss—; dispel—;  dissipate—;  drown—; eliminate—; entertain—; eradicate—; evoke—; express—; foster—; ground—upon; harbor—; harness—; impregnate—; ingrain—; inspire—; intensify—; justify—; modify—; nourish—; obliterate—; petrify  with—; play on—; quake with—; quell—; quiet—; rule by—; rout—; scoff at—; share—; shiver with—; soothe—; subdue—; surmount—; vanquish—; —blights; —chills; —clutches; —coerces; —dominates; — drives; —evaporates; —fetters; —hounds;—insinuates itself; —lurks; —materializes; —melts; —motivates; —numbs; —obsesses; —overshadows; —prevails; —preys upon; —racks; —subsides; —takes possession.

Synonyms for Fear

 * be afraid of, be frightened of, be scared of, be terrorised/terrorized be
 * be in awe of, revere, venerate
 * dread, terror, fright
 * dread, phobia, scare, anxiety, apprehension
 * awe, reverence, veneration
 * consternation, panic, horror, dismay, dread,trepidation, misgiving, tremor, alarm, awe, reverence,disquietude, apprehension, trembling, agitation, anxiety.

Antonyms for Fear
bravery, courage, endurance, endeavor, resolution, heroism, valor, fortitude, intrepidity, fearlessness, gallantry, nonchalance, calm, security, unconcern

Derived terms
fear not; God-fearing; never fear; affear; fearful; fearless; fearmonger; fearnaught; fearsome;

Thesaurus
panic, pause, perturbation, phobia, pins and needles, pliability, ponder, presentiment, pucker, pull back, qualms, quiver, respect, retreat, revere, reverence, scare, scruple, second thoughts, shrink from, shudder at, shy, sit upon thorns, softness, solicitude, spell of nerves, spinelessness, stage fright, stand aghast, state of nerves, stew, stick at, stop to consider, straddle the fence, strain, strain at, suspect, suspense, tension, terror, think twice about, tic, timidity, timidness, timorousness, trepidation, trouble, twitching, unease, uneasiness, upset, venerate, veneration, vexation, weak will, weak-mindedness, weakness, withdraw, worry, yellowness, yield, zeal, agitation, alarm, all-overs, angst, anticipate, anxiety, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat, anxiousness, apprehend, apprehension, apprehensiveness, attack of nerves, awe, back down, balance, be afraid, bogey, bogy, buck fever, bugbear, care, case of nerves, cold feet, cold sweat, concern, consternation, cowardice, cowardliness, cravenness, debate, deliberate, demur, diffidence, discomposure, dismay, disquiet, disquietude, distress, disturbance, dread, esteem, excessive irritability, expect, eye askance, faintness, falter, fearfulness, feebleness, fidgets, foreboding, forebodings, foresee, frailty, fright, funk, hang back, have qualms, hem and haw, hesitate, hesitation, horror, hover, hum and haw, imagine, infirmity, inquietude, jib, malaise, misgiving, morbid excitability, nerves, nervous stomach, nervous strain, nervous tension, nervousness, nightmare,

Etymology

 * 1) From  feer:, fere:, fer:, from  fær:, gefær:, from, from . Cognate with  gevaar:,  Gefahr:,  fara:,  periculum:.
 * 2) From  feren:, from  færan:, from  fær:, gefær:. See above.
 * 3) From  fere:, feore:, from  fere:, from, from . Cognate with  fere:, feir:,  gevüere:,  för:,  færr:. Related to.

Noun

 * Arabic: خوف
 * Armenian:, ,
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: por, paüra , basarda , temor
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 恐怖
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Estonian: hirm,
 * Filipino:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, crainte
 * Galician: medo
 * German: ,
 * Gothic:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: אימה (eimah)
 * Hiligaynon:
 * Hindi: डर
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 恐れ,
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji:
 * Sorani:


 * Latin: pavor, timor, metus, pavor
 * Latvian: bailes, bažas
 * Lithuanian: baimė, bijojimas
 * Malay: ketakutan
 * Manx:
 * Occitan:
 * Old French:
 * Old Provençal:
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: tema
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:, ,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: страх
 * Roman: strah
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: takot
 * Urdu: ڈر
 * Welsh:


 * Armenian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Catalan: por, paüra , basarda , temor
 * Chinese:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Filipino:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian:
 * German:, ,
 * Greek: φοβία (fovía)
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 恐怖症 (kyōfushō)
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji:
 * Sorani:, ترس و له‌رز


 * Latin: pavor
 * Malay: ketakutan
 * Occitan:
 * Old French:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: tema
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:, ,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: страх
 * Roman: strah
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: miedo
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: takot


 * Armenian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Catalan: temor, respecte
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Irish:
 * Japanese: 畏れ (osore)
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji:
 * Sorani:


 * Malay: ketakutan
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:, ,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: страх
 * Roman: strah
 * Slovene: strahospoštovanje
 * Swedish:

Verb

 * Albanian: ka frikë
 * Arabic: خاف
 * Armenian:, երկյուղել,
 * Bosnian: bojati (se)
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 害怕, 怕
 * Croatian: bojati (se)
 * Czech:
 * Danish: frygte, være bange for
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: kartma
 * Filipino:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Guaraní: ...rehe kyhyje
 * Hindi: डरना
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: timar
 * Interlingua: timer, haber timor
 * Irish: eagla a bheith ort roimh...
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, 怖る
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji: tirsîn
 * Sorani: ترسین


 * Lao:
 * Latin:, paveo, veror, vereor
 * Latvian: baidīties, bīties., bažīties, baiļoties.
 * Lithuanian: bijoti, baimintis, būgštauti, nuogąstauti
 * Malay:
 * Northern Sami: ballat
 * Persian:
 * Polish: bać się, lękać się, niepokoić się, czuć niepokój
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: temair
 * Russian: (+ genitive case),  (+ genitive case)
 * Santali:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: бојати (се)
 * Roman: bojati (se)
 * Slovene: bati (se)
 * Spanish:, tener miedo de
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: pagtakot
 * Tupinambá: ...resé sykyîé
 * Turkish: ,
 * Urdu: ڈرنا


 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Czech: se
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: 畏れる (osoreru)


 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji: tirsîn
 * Sorani: ترسین
 * Malay:
 * Portuguese: temer

Anagrams

 * Afer
 * fare
 * FERA

Etymology
From fer:, from, from. Cognate with Welsh gŵr:, Latin vir:, Old English wer:.

Noun

 * 1) man
 * 2) husband, male spouse

Noun

 * 1) fear

Verb

 * 1) to fear
 * 2) to frighten, scare

Noun

 * 1) man
 * 2) husband, male spouse

Declension
First declension; forms with the definite article:

Derived terms

 * fear-
 * fear an taighe
 * fear-taighe
 * fireann
 * fireannach
 * fireannta

Pronoun

 * 1) somebody, something, one

Noun
( fearren)


 * 1) ferry
 * 2) spring (mechanical device)