Word Meanings - MISGIVING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Evil premonition; doubt; distrust. "Suspicious and misgivings." South.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MISGIVING)

• Anxiety
• Care
• trouble
• eagerness
• disquiet
• apprehension
• carefulness
• diffidence
• solicitude
• misgiving
• Compunction
• Contrition
• penitence
• remorse
• regret
• sorrow
• Fear
• Apprehension
• solicitude alarm
• fright
• dread
• terror
• trepidation
• dismay
• consternation
• horror
• timidity
• awe
• Qualm
• Misgiving
• scruple
• Reluctance
• Aversion
• repugnance
• unwillingness
• dislike

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of MISGIVING)

• Encourage
• rally
• inspirit
• assure
• allure
• Welcome
• hail
• approve
• abandon
• abjure
• forget
• disregard
• Compose
• calm
• allay
• appease
• please
• soothe
• delight
• gratify
• recreate
• entertain
• relieve
• refresh

Related words: (words related to MISGIVING)

• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• SORROW
  The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good, real or supposed, or by diseappointment in the expectation of good; grief at having suffered or occasioned evil; regret; unhappiness; sadness. Milton. How great
• ASSURER
  1. One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter. 2. One who takes out a life assurance policy.
• QUALM
  1. Sickness; disease; pestilence; death. thousand slain and not of qualm ystorve . Chaucer. 2. A sudden attack of illness, faintness, or pain; an agony. " Qualms of heartsick agony." Milton. 3. Especially, a sudden sensation of nausea. For who,
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• TROUBLER
  One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace. The rich troublers of the world's repose. Waller.
• DISQUIETTUDE
  Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.
• SORROWED
  Accompanied with sorrow; sorrowful. Shak.
• DISQUIETLY
  In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. Wiseman.
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• DREADNOUGHT
  1. A British battleship, completed in 1906 -- 1907, having an armament consisting of ten 12-inch guns, and of twenty-four 12-pound quick-fire guns for protection against torpedo boats. This was the first battleship of the type characterized by
• DIFFIDENCE
  1. The state of being diffident; distrust; want of confidence; doubt of the power, ability, or disposition of others. That affliction grew heavy upon me, and weighed me down even to a diffidence of God's mercy. Donne. 2. Distrust of one's self
• APPREHENSION
  1. The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped. 3. The act of grasping with the
• FRIGHTFUL
  1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
• ENCOURAGER
  One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison.
• TERRORLESS
  Free from terror. Poe.
• MISGIVING
  Evil premonition; doubt; distrust. "Suspicious and misgivings." South.
• SCRUPLE
  twenty-fourth part of an ounce, a scruple, uneasiness, doubt, dim. of scrupus a rough or sharp stone, anxiety, uneasiness; perh. akin to 1. A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram. 2. Hence, a very small quantity; a particle. I will
• DISLIKE
  1. To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish. Every nation dislikes an impost. Johnson. 2. To awaken dislike in; to displease. "Disliking countenance." Marston. "It dislikes me." Shak.
• SUTURALLY
  In a sutural manner.
• OVERTROUBLED
  Excessively troubled.
• DISAPPROVE
  1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline
• CENTRALLY
  In a central manner or situation.
• UNASSURED
  1. Not assured; not bold or confident. 2. Not to be trusted. Spenser. 3. Not insured against loss; as, unassured goods.
• DECOMPOSE
  To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.