apprehensiveness, fearfulness &c adj.; solicitude, anxiety, care,
apprehension, misgiving; feeze [U.S.]; mistrust &c (doubt) 485;
suspicion, qualm; hesitation &c (irresolution) 605.
nervousness, restlessness &c adj.; inquietude, disquietude, worry,
concern; batophobia†; heartquake†; flutter, trepidation, fear and
trembling, perturbation, tremor, quivering, shaking, trembling,
throbbing heart, palpitation, ague fit, cold sweat; abject fear &c
(cowardice) 862; mortal funk, heartsinking†, despondency; despair &c
859.
fright; affright, affrightment†; boof alarm [U.S.], dread, awe,
terror, horror, dismay, consternation, panic, scare, stampede (of
horses).
intimidation, terrorism, reign of terror.
[Object of fear] bug bear, bugaboo; scarecrow; hobgoblin &c
(demon) 980; nightmare, Gorgon, mormo†, ogre, Hurlothrumbo†, raw head
and bloody bones, fee-faw-fum, bete noire [Fr.], enfant terrible [Fr.].
alarmist &c (coward) 862.
V. fear, stand in awe of; be afraid &c adj.; have qualms &c n.;
apprehend, sit upon thorns, eye askance; distrust &c (disbelieve) 485.
hesitate &c (be irresolute) 605; falter, funk, cower, crouch;
skulk &c (cowardice) 862; let 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would'
[Macbeth] take fright, take alarm; start, wince, flinch, shy, shrink;
fly &c (avoid) 623.
tremble, shake; shiver, shiver in one's shoes; shudder, flutter;
shake like an aspen leaf, tremble like an aspen leaf, tremble all over;
quake, quaver, quiver, quail.
grow pale, turn pale; blench, stand aghast; not dare to say one's
soul is one's own.
inspire fear, excite fear, inspire awe, excite awe; raise
apprehensions†; be in a daze, bulldoze [U.S.]; faze, feeze [U.S.]; give
an alarm, raise an alarm, sound an alarm; alarm, startle, scare, cry
'wolf', disquiet, dismay; fright, frighten, terrify; astound; fright
from one's propriety; fright out of one's senses, fright out of one's
wits, fright out of one's seven senses; awe; strike all of a heap,
strike an awe into, strike terror; harrow up the soul, appall, unman,
petrify, horrify; pile on the agony.
make one's flesh creep, make one's hair stand on end, make one's
blood run cold, make one's teeth chatter; take away one's breath, stop
one's breath; make one tremble &c; haunt; prey on the mind, weigh on
the mind.
put in fear, put in bodily fear; terrorize, intimidate, cow,
daunt, overawe, abash, deter, discourage; browbeat, bully; threaten &c
909.
Adj. fearing &c v.; frightened &c v.; in fear, in a fright &c n.;
haunted with the fear of &c n.; afeard†.
afraid, fearful; timid, timorous; nervous, diffident, coy, faint-
hearted, tremulous, shaky, afraid of one's shadow, apprehensive,
restless, fidgety; more frightened than hurt.
aghast; awe-stricken, horror-stricken, terror-stricken, panic-
stricken, awestruck, awe-stricken, horror-struck; frightened to death,
white as a sheet; pale, pale as a ghost, pale as death, pale as ashes;
breathless, in hysterics.
inspiring fear &c v.; alarming; formidable, redoubtable; perilous
&c (danger) 665; portentous; fearful; dread, dreadful; fell; dire,
direful; shocking; terrible, terrific; tremendous; horrid, horrible,
horrific; ghastly; awful, awe-inspiring; revolting &c (painful) 830;
Gorgonian.
Adv. in terrorem [Lat.].
Int. angels and ministers of grace defend us! [Hamlet].
Phr. ante tubam trepidat [Lat.]; horresco referens [Lat.], one's heart
failing one, obstupui steteruntque comae et vox faucibus haesit [Lat.]
[Vergil].
a dagger of the mind [Macbeth]; expertus metuit [Lat.] [Horace];
fain would I climb but that I fear to fall [Raleigh]; fear is the
parent of cruelty [Froude]; Gorgons and hydras and chimeras dire
[Paradise Lost]; omnia tuta timens [Lat.] [Vergil]; our fears do make
us traitors [Macbeth];