Exact Match:
- fearful
- experiencing or showing fear; "a fearful glance"; "fearful of criticism"
- timid by nature or revealing timidity; "timorous little mouse"; "in a timorous tone"; "cast fearful glances at the large dog"
- extremely distressing; "fearful slum conditions"; "a frightful mistake"
Synonyms:
- aflutter,
- afraid,
- aghast,
- agitated,
- alarmed,
- alarming,
- all nerves,
- all-overish,
- anxious,
- anxioused up,
- appalling,
- apprehensive,
- atrocious,
- awful,
- awing,
- baleful,
- bashful,
- bothered,
- chicken,
- chickenhearted,
- chilling,
- concerned,
- coward,
- cowardly,
- cowed,
- daunted,
- daunting,
- deadly,
- deterrent,
- deterring,
- diffident,
- dire,
- direful,
- discomposed,
- disconcerting,
- discouraging,
- disgusting,
- disheartening,
- dismayed,
- dismaying,
- disquieted,
- disquieting,
- disturbed,
- dreadful,
- edgy,
- excitable,
- fainthearted,
- fear-inspiring,
- fearing,
- fearsome,
- foreboding,
- formidable,
- frightened,
- frightening,
- frightful,
- funking,
- funky,
- ghastly,
- goosy,
- grim,
- grisly,
- gruesome,
- heinous,
- henhearted,
- hesitant,
- hideous,
- high-strung,
- horrendous,
- horrible,
- horrific,
- horrifying,
- howling,
- in a pucker,
- in a stew,
- in fear,
- intimidated,
- irritable,
- jittery,
- jumpy,
- lily-livered,
- loathsome,
- lurid,
- macabre,
- malign,
- milk-livered,
- milksoppish,
- milksoppy,
- misgiving,
- monstrous,
- mousy,
- nauseating,
- nauseous,
- nerves on edge,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- on edge,
- on tenterhooks,
- overanxious,
- overapprehensive,
- overawing,
- overstrung,
- overtimid,
- overtimorous,
- overwhelming,
- panic-prone,
- panic-stricken,
- panicky,
- perturbed,
- pigeonhearted,
- pusillanimous,
- rabbity,
- redoubtable,
- repugnant,
- repulsive,
- revolting,
- rousing,
- scared,
- scaring,
- scary,
- shaky,
- shivery,
- shocking,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- sinister,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- soft,
- solicitous,
- startling,
- startlish,
- strained,
- sublime,
- suspenseful,
- tense,
- terrible,
- terrific,
- terrified,
- terrifying,
- terror-stricken,
- thumping,
- timid,
- timorous,
- trembling,
- tremendous,
- tremulous,
- trepidant,
- trigger-happy,
- troubled,
- uneasy,
- unmanly,
- unmanned,
- unspeakable,
- unwilling,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weakhearted,
- whacking,
- white-livered,
- yellow,
- zealous
Related Words:
- whacking
collapse - (British informal) enormous; "a whacking phone bill"; "a whacking lie"
- extremely; "a whacking good story" related words >
- alarming
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- causing alarm or fear related words >
- awing,
- bad,
- chilling,
- critical,
- dangerous,
- dangersome,
- daunting,
- deterrent,
- deterring,
- disconcerting,
- discouraging,
- disheartening,
- dismaying,
- disquieting,
- explosive,
- fear-inspiring,
- fearful,
- fearsome,
- fraught with danger,
- frightening,
- frightful,
- jeopardous,
- menacing,
- overawing,
- parlous,
- periculous,
- perilous,
- scaring,
- scary,
- serious,
- startling,
- threatening,
- ugly
- frightened
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- made afraid; "the frightened child cowered in the corner"; "too shocked and scared to move" related words >
- affrighted,
- aghast,
- alarmed,
- alerted,
- all nerves,
- anxious,
- apprehensive,
- aroused,
- consternated,
- daunted,
- dismayed,
- disquieted,
- edgy,
- excitable,
- fearful,
- high-strung,
- in a fright,
- in a funk,
- irritable,
- nerves on edge,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- on edge,
- overstrung,
- panicky,
- scared,
- scary,
- startled,
- terrified,
- uneasy
- abusive,
- alarming,
- awing,
- bludgeoning,
- blustering,
- browbeating,
- bulldozing,
- bullying,
- chilling,
- comminatory,
- daunting,
- denunciatory,
- deterrent,
- deterring,
- disconcerting,
- discouraging,
- disheartening,
- dismaying,
- disquieting,
- fearful,
- fearsome,
- foreboding,
- frightening,
- frightful,
- hectoring,
- imminent,
- intimidating,
- lowering,
- menacing,
- minacious,
- minatory,
- ominous,
- overawing,
- scaring,
- scary,
- startling,
- terroristic,
- terrorizing,
- threatening,
- threatful
- afraid,
- chicken,
- chickenhearted,
- coward,
- cowardly,
- cowed,
- daunted,
- dismayed,
- fainthearted,
- fearful,
- funking,
- funky,
- henhearted,
- intimidated,
- lily-livered,
- milk-livered,
- milksoppish,
- milksoppy,
- mousy,
- overtimid,
- overtimorous,
- panic-prone,
- panicky,
- rabbity,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- soft,
- timid,
- timorous,
- unmanly,
- unmanned,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weakhearted,
- white-livered,
- yellow
- afraid,
- chicken,
- chickenhearted,
- coward,
- cowardly,
- cowed,
- daunted,
- dismayed,
- fainthearted,
- fearful,
- funking,
- funky,
- henhearted,
- intimidated,
- lily-livered,
- milk-livered,
- milksoppish,
- milksoppy,
- mousy,
- overtimid,
- overtimorous,
- panic-prone,
- panicky,
- pigeonhearted,
- rabbity,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- soft,
- timid,
- timorous,
- unmanly,
- unmanned,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- white-livered,
- yellow
- alarming,
- awing,
- black,
- bleak,
- chilling,
- daunting,
- depressant,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- despondent,
- deterrent,
- deterring,
- disappointing,
- disconcerting,
- discouraging,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- dispiriting,
- displeasing,
- disquieting,
- dissatisfactory,
- down,
- dreary,
- fear-inspiring,
- fearful,
- fearsome,
- frightening,
- frightful,
- funereal,
- inadequate,
- incommensurate,
- insufficient,
- not good enough,
- oppressive,
- overawing,
- pessimistic,
- scaring,
- scary,
- somber,
- startling,
- unfulfilling,
- ungratifying,
- unsatisfactory,
- unsatisfying
- discouraging
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- depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action; "where never is heard a discouraging word"
- expressing disapproval related words >
- admonitory,
- alarming,
- awing,
- black,
- bleak,
- cautionary,
- chilling,
- daunting,
- depressant,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- deterrent,
- deterring,
- disconcerting,
- disheartening,
- disinclining,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- dispiriting,
- disquieting,
- dissuading,
- dissuasive,
- down,
- dreary,
- expostulatory,
- fear-inspiring,
- fearful,
- fearsome,
- forbidding,
- forestalling,
- frightening,
- frightful,
- hindering,
- intimidating,
- monitory,
- oppressive,
- overawing,
- preclusive,
- preventative,
- preventive,
- prohibitive,
- prophylactic,
- scaring,
- scary,
- startling
- alarming,
- appalling,
- awing,
- browbeating,
- bulldozing,
- bullying,
- chilling,
- cowing,
- daunting,
- demoralization,
- deterrent,
- deterring,
- dire,
- disconcerting,
- discouraging,
- disheartening,
- dismaying,
- disquieting,
- distressing,
- dreadful,
- fear-inspiring,
- fearful,
- fearsome,
- formidable,
- frightful,
- hair-raising,
- harrowing,
- hectoring,
- horrifying,
- intimidating,
- intimidation,
- overawing,
- petrifying,
- psychological warfare,
- scaring,
- scary,
- shocking,
- spooky,
- startling,
- terrifying,
- war of nerves
- disconcerting
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- causing an emotional disturbance; "his disconcerting habit of greeting friends ferociously and strangers charmingly"- Herb Caen; "an upsetting experience" related words >
- alarming,
- awing,
- awkward,
- baffling,
- bewildering,
- bothering,
- chilling,
- confounding,
- confusing,
- crushing,
- daunting,
- defeating,
- deterrent,
- deterring,
- discomposing,
- discouraging,
- disheartening,
- dismaying,
- disquieting,
- distracting,
- disturbing,
- embarrassing,
- enigmatic,
- fear-inspiring,
- fearful,
- fearsome,
- frightening,
- frightful,
- frustrating,
- humiliating,
- intricate,
- mortifying,
- mysterious,
- mystifying,
- overawing,
- perplexing,
- perturbing,
- problematic,
- puzzling,
- scaring,
- scary,
- startling,
- unsettling,
- upsetting
- overanxious
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- anxious or nervous to an excessive degree related words >
- agitated,
- all-overish,
- anxious,
- anxioused up,
- apprehensive,
- at fever pitch,
- bothered,
- concerned,
- delirious,
- disquieted,
- disturbed,
- fanatical,
- fearful,
- febrile,
- feverish,
- foreboding,
- frantic,
- frenetic,
- frenzied,
- furious,
- hectic,
- hysteric,
- in a pucker,
- in a stew,
- infatuated,
- insane,
- misgiving,
- nervous,
- on tenterhooks,
- overapprehensive,
- overdesirous,
- overeager,
- overenthusiastic,
- overzealous,
- perfervid,
- perturbed,
- solicitous,
- strained,
- suspenseful,
- tense,
- troubled,
- ultrazealous,
- uneasy,
- wild,
- zealous
- afraid,
- chicken,
- chickenhearted,
- coward,
- cowardly,
- cowed,
- craven,
- daunted,
- dismayed,
- fainthearted,
- fearful,
- funking,
- funky,
- gutless,
- henhearted,
- intimidated,
- milk-livered,
- milksoppish,
- milksoppy,
- mousy,
- overtimid,
- overtimorous,
- panic-prone,
- panicky,
- pigeonhearted,
- poltroonish,
- pusillanimous,
- rabbity,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- soft,
- spunkless,
- timid,
- timorous,
- unmanly,
- unmanned,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weakhearted,
- white-livered,
- yellow
- concerned
collapse
- feeling or showing worry or solicitude; "concerned parents of youthful offenders"; "was concerned about the future"; "we feel concerned about accomplishing the task at hand"; "greatly concerned not to disappoint a small child"
- involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in; "a memorandum to those concerned"; "an enterprise in which three men are concerned"; "factors concerned in the rise and fall of epidemics"; "the interested parties met to discuss the business"
- in relation (or in regard) to; especially as in the phrases; "as far as x is concerned"; "where x is concerned" related words >
- a party to,
- active,
- affected,
- agitated,
- all-overish,
- anxious,
- anxioused up,
- apprehensive,
- attracted,
- bothered,
- caring,
- cathectic,
- curious,
- disquieted,
- distressed,
- disturbed,
- enthusiastic,
- excited,
- fascinated,
- fearful,
- foreboding,
- implicated,
- in a pucker,
- in a stew,
- included,
- interested,
- involved,
- keen on,
- misgiving,
- nervous,
- on tenterhooks,
- overanxious,
- overapprehensive,
- passionate,
- perturbed,
- piqued,
- responsible,
- solicitous,
- strained,
- suspenseful,
- tantalized,
- tense,
- tickled,
- titillated,
- troubled,
- turned-on,
- uneasy,
- upset,
- vexed,
- worried,
- zealous
- affrighted,
- afraid,
- alarmed,
- chicken,
- chickenhearted,
- consternated,
- coward,
- cowardly,
- cowed,
- dismayed,
- disquieted,
- fainthearted,
- fearful,
- frightened,
- funking,
- funky,
- henhearted,
- in a fright,
- in a funk,
- intimidated,
- lily-livered,
- milk-livered,
- milksoppish,
- milksoppy,
- mousy,
- overtimid,
- overtimorous,
- panic-prone,
- panicky,
- pigeonhearted,
- rabbity,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- soft,
- startled,
- timid,
- timorous,
- unmanly,
- unmanned,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weakhearted,
- white-livered,
- yellow
- all nerves,
- antsy,
- antsy-pantsy,
- anxious,
- apprehensive,
- breathless,
- chafing,
- eager,
- edgy,
- excitable,
- excited,
- fearful,
- fretful,
- fretting,
- frightened,
- hasty,
- high-strung,
- hopped-up,
- impatient,
- impetuous,
- in a lather,
- in a stew,
- in a sweat,
- in suspense,
- irritable,
- keyed-up,
- nerves on edge,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- on tenterhooks,
- on tiptoe,
- overstrung,
- panicky,
- quivering,
- restive,
- restless,
- squirming,
- squirmy,
- taut,
- tense,
- uneasy,
- unpatient,
- unquiet,
- with bated breath,
- with muscles tense
- alarming,
- appalling,
- awe-inspiring,
- awesome,
- awing,
- bashful,
- chilling,
- cowardly,
- daunting,
- deterrent,
- deterring,
- diffident,
- disconcerting,
- discouraging,
- disheartening,
- dismaying,
- disquieting,
- dreadful,
- fear-inspiring,
- fearful,
- fearing,
- formidable,
- frightening,
- frightful,
- goosy,
- in fear,
- intimidating,
- jumpy,
- menacing,
- mousy,
- nervous,
- overawing,
- rabbity,
- scaring,
- scary,
- shaky,
- shivery,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- startling,
- startlish,
- terrible,
- terrifying,
- timid,
- timorous,
- trembling,
- tremulous,
- trepidant,
- trigger-happy
- addled,
- agitated,
- all-overish,
- anxious,
- anxioused up,
- apprehensive,
- at a loss,
- baffled,
- bamboozled,
- beat,
- bothered,
- buffaloed,
- concerned,
- confounded,
- dazed,
- disquieted,
- disturbed,
- fearful,
- floored,
- foreboding,
- fuddled,
- in a dilemma,
- in a pucker,
- in a stew,
- in suspense,
- keyed-up,
- licked,
- misgiving,
- muddled,
- mystified,
- nervous,
- nonplussed,
- on edge,
- on tiptoe,
- overanxious,
- overapprehensive,
- perplexed,
- perturbed,
- puzzled,
- quivering,
- solicitous,
- strained,
- stuck,
- stumped,
- suspenseful,
- taut,
- tense,
- thrown,
- troubled,
- uneasy,
- with bated breath,
- with muscles tense,
- zealous
- unmanly
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- not possessing qualities befitting a man related words >
- afraid,
- chicken,
- chickenhearted,
- coward,
- cowardly,
- cowed,
- craven,
- daunted,
- dismayed,
- effeminate,
- epicene,
- fainthearted,
- fearful,
- funking,
- funky,
- gutless,
- henhearted,
- intimidated,
- lily-livered,
- milk-livered,
- milksoppish,
- milksoppy,
- mousy,
- muliebrous,
- old-womanish,
- overtimid,
- overtimorous,
- panic-prone,
- panicky,
- pigeonhearted,
- poltroon,
- prissy,
- pusillanimous,
- rabbity,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- sissyish,
- soft,
- spunkless,
- timid,
- timorous,
- unmanned,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weakhearted,
- white-livered,
- womanish,
- yellow
- abulic,
- afraid,
- chicken,
- chickenhearted,
- coward,
- cowardly,
- cowed,
- daunted,
- dismayed,
- faint,
- fearful,
- feeble,
- feebleminded,
- frail,
- funking,
- funky,
- henhearted,
- infirm,
- intimidated,
- invertebrate,
- lily-livered,
- milk-livered,
- milksoppish,
- milksoppy,
- mousy,
- overtimid,
- overtimorous,
- panic-prone,
- panicky,
- pigeonhearted,
- pliable,
- rabbity,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- soft,
- spineless,
- timid,
- timorous,
- unmanly,
- unmanned,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weak-minded,
- weak-willed,
- weakhearted,
- white-livered,
- yellow
- aghast,
- anxious,
- appalled,
- ashen,
- astounded,
- awed,
- awestricken,
- awestruck,
- blanched,
- cowed,
- deadly pale,
- fearful,
- frightened,
- frozen,
- gray with fear,
- horrified,
- horror-struck,
- intimidated,
- pale as death,
- pallid,
- paralyzed,
- petrified,
- scared,
- scared stiff,
- scared to death,
- scary,
- shocked,
- stunned,
- stupefied,
- terror-crazed,
- terror-haunted,
- terror-ridden,
- terror-riven,
- terror-shaken,
- terror-smitten,
- terror-struck,
- terror-troubled,
- undone,
- unmanned,
- unnerved,
- unstrung
- diffident
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- lacking self-confidence; "stood in the doorway diffident and abashed"; "problems that call for bold not timid responses"; "a very unsure young man"
- showing modest reserve; "she was diffident when offering a comment on the professor's lecture" related words >
- bashful,
- boggling,
- cautious,
- cowardly,
- coy,
- demure,
- demurring,
- deprecative,
- deprecatory,
- faltering,
- fearful,
- fearing,
- fearsome,
- goosy,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- in fear,
- jibbing,
- jumpy,
- modest,
- mousy,
- nervous,
- qualmish,
- rabbity,
- reluctant,
- retiring,
- scary,
- scrupling,
- scrupulous,
- self-deprecating,
- self-depreciating,
- self-depreciative,
- self-distrustful,
- self-doubting,
- self-effacing,
- shaky,
- shilly-shallying,
- shivery,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- squeamish,
- startlish,
- sticking,
- stickling,
- straining,
- tentative,
- timid,
- timorous,
- trembling,
- tremulous,
- trepidant,
- trigger-happy,
- unassertive,
- unassured,
- unselfconfident,
- unselfreliant
- august
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- the month following July and preceding September
- profoundly honored; "revered holy men"
- of or befitting a lord; "heir to a lordly fortune"; "of august lineage" related words >
- aristocratic,
- awe-inspiring,
- awesome,
- awful,
- baronial,
- courtly,
- dignified,
- distinguished,
- dreadful,
- elevated,
- eminent,
- estimable,
- exalted,
- famous,
- fearful,
- glorious,
- godlike,
- grand,
- grandiose,
- grave,
- heroic,
- high,
- honorable,
- imposing,
- impressive,
- kingly,
- lauded,
- lofty,
- lordly,
- magisterial,
- magnanimous,
- magnificent,
- majestic,
- moving,
- noble,
- overwhelming,
- princely,
- prominent,
- queenly,
- regal,
- renowned,
- reverend,
- royal,
- sedate,
- soaring,
- sober,
- solemn,
- splendid,
- stately,
- statuesque,
- striking,
- sublime,
- superb,
- time-honored,
- towering,
- venerable,
- worshipful,
- worthy
- agitable,
- all nerves,
- apprehensive,
- edgy,
- emotional,
- emotionally unstable,
- eruptive,
- excitable,
- explosive,
- fearful,
- fidgety,
- frightened,
- goosey,
- high-mettled,
- high-spirited,
- highly emotional,
- hypersensitive,
- inflammable,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- jittery,
- jumpy,
- mettlesome,
- miffy,
- nerves on edge,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- on edge,
- oversensitive,
- overstrung,
- panicky,
- perturbable,
- prickly,
- sensitive,
- skittish,
- spooky,
- startlish,
- taut,
- temperamental,
- tetchy,
- thin-skinned,
- ticklish,
- tight,
- touchy,
- twittery,
- uneasy,
- unrelaxed,
- unrestful,
- uptight,
- volcanic
- frightful
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- extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact; "in a frightful hurry"; "spent a frightful amount of money" related words >
- abhorrent,
- abominable,
- alarming,
- appalling,
- atrocious,
- awful,
- awing,
- chilling,
- daunting,
- deadly,
- deterrent,
- deterring,
- disagreeable,
- disconcerting,
- discouraging,
- disheartening,
- dismaying,
- disquieting,
- dreadful,
- fear-inspiring,
- fearful,
- fearsome,
- forbidding,
- formidable,
- foul,
- frightening,
- ghastly,
- grisly,
- gruesome,
- hideous,
- horrendous,
- horrible,
- horrid,
- horrific,
- horrifying,
- howling,
- loathsome,
- lurid,
- macabre,
- nasty,
- nauseating,
- nauseous,
- offensive,
- overawing,
- repelling,
- repugnant,
- repulsive,
- revolting,
- rousing,
- scaring,
- scary,
- shocking,
- startling,
- terrible,
- terrific,
- thumping,
- ugly,
- unspeakable,
- vile,
- whacking
- startling
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- so remarkably different or sudden as to cause momentary shock or alarm; "Sydney's startling new Opera House"; "startling news"; "startling earthquake shocks" related words >
- abrupt,
- alarming,
- amazing,
- astonishing,
- astounding,
- awesome,
- awing,
- breathtaking,
- chilling,
- confounding,
- daunting,
- deterrent,
- deterring,
- disconcerting,
- discouraging,
- disheartening,
- dismaying,
- disquieting,
- disturbing,
- electrifying,
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- speedy,
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- unanticipated,
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- unsettling,
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- abulic,
- afraid,
- chicken,
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- coward,
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- cowed,
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- double-minded,
- faint,
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- faltering,
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- feeble,
- feebleminded,
- frail,
- funking,
- funky,
- henhearted,
- infirm,
- intimidated,
- invertebrate,
- irresolute,
- lily-livered,
- milk-livered,
- milksoppish,
- milksoppy,
- mousy,
- overtimid,
- overtimorous,
- panic-prone,
- panicky,
- pigeonhearted,
- pliable,
- rabbity,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- soft,
- spineless,
- timid,
- timorous,
- uncertain,
- unmanly,
- unmanned,
- wavering,
- weak,
- weak-minded,
- weak-willed,
- weakhearted,
- white-livered,
- wobbly,
- yellow
- aghast,
- alarming,
- anxious,
- awing,
- bashful,
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- goosy,
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- horrible,
- horrid,
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- in fear,
- intimidating,
- jumpy,
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- nervous,
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- rabbity,
- scared,
- scaring,
- shaky,
- shivery,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- skittery,
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- spine-chilling,
- spooky,
- startling,
- startlish,
- terrified,
- terrifying,
- timid,
- timorous,
- trembling,
- tremulous,
- trepidant,
- trigger-happy
- panicky
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- thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation; "became panicky as the snow deepened"; "felt panicked before each exam"; "trying to keep back the panic-stricken crowd"; "the terrified horse bolted" related words >
- afraid,
- all nerves,
- apprehensive,
- chicken,
- chickenhearted,
- coward,
- cowardly,
- cowed,
- daunted,
- dismayed,
- edgy,
- excitable,
- fainthearted,
- fearful,
- frightened,
- funking,
- funky,
- henhearted,
- high-strung,
- in a panic,
- intimidated,
- irritable,
- lily-livered,
- milk-livered,
- milksoppish,
- milksoppy,
- mousy,
- nerves on edge,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- on edge,
- overstrung,
- overtimid,
- overtimorous,
- panic-prone,
- panic-stricken,
- panic-struck,
- panicked,
- pigeonhearted,
- rabbity,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- soft,
- timid,
- timorous,
- uneasy,
- unmanly,
- unmanned,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weakhearted,
- white-livered,
- yellow
- edgy
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- being in a tense state related words >
- agitable,
- all nerves,
- antsy,
- antsy-pantsy,
- anxious,
- apprehensive,
- breathless,
- chafing,
- combustible,
- eager,
- emotional,
- emotionally unstable,
- eruptive,
- excitable,
- excited,
- explosive,
- fearful,
- fretful,
- fretting,
- frightened,
- hasty,
- high-mettled,
- high-spirited,
- high-strung,
- highly emotional,
- hopped-up,
- impatient,
- impetuous,
- in a lather,
- in a stew,
- in a sweat,
- inflammable,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- mettlesome,
- nerves on edge,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- on edge,
- overstrung,
- panicky,
- perturbable,
- prickly,
- restive,
- restless,
- sensitive,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- squirming,
- squirmy,
- startlish,
- touchy,
- uneasy,
- unpatient,
- unquiet,
- uptight,
- volatile,
- volcanic
- insecure
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- lacking self-confidence or assurance; "an insecure person lacking mental stability"
- lacking in security or safety; "his fortune was increasingly insecure"; "an insecure future"
- not firm or firmly fixed; likely to fail or give way; "the hinge is insecure"
- not safe from attack related words >
- afraid,
- anxious,
- apprehensive,
- dangerous,
- desultory,
- dickey,
- disconcerted,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- exposed,
- fearful,
- flimsy,
- fluctuant,
- frail,
- hazardous,
- hesitant,
- in suspense,
- infirm,
- insubstantial,
- jumpy,
- nervous,
- open,
- perilous,
- precarious,
- provisional,
- questioning,
- rickety,
- risky,
- rocky,
- rootless,
- shaky,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- slippery,
- temporary,
- tentative,
- ticklish,
- tottery,
- treacherous,
- unassured,
- uncertain,
- uncomfortable,
- unconfident,
- undefended,
- undependable,
- unfaithworthy,
- unguarded,
- unhealthy,
- unnerved,
- unpredictable,
- unprotected,
- unreliable,
- unsafe,
- unselfassured,
- unselfconfident,
- unselfreliant,
- unsolid,
- unsound,
- unstable,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- unsubstantial,
- unsure,
- untrustworthy,
- vacillating,
- vulnerable,
- wavering,
- weak,
- wobbly,
- worried
- solicitous
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- showing hovering attentiveness; "solicitous about her health"; "made solicitous inquiries about our family"
- full of anxiety and concern; "solicitous parents"; "solicitous about the future" related words >
- accommodating,
- accommodative,
- affable,
- agitated,
- agreeable,
- all-overish,
- anxious,
- anxioused up,
- apprehensive,
- ardent,
- athirst,
- attentive,
- avid,
- bothered,
- careful,
- caring,
- cautious,
- circumspect,
- civil,
- complaisant,
- concerned,
- considerate,
- courteous,
- curious,
- deferential,
- delicate,
- desirous,
- disquieted,
- disturbed,
- eager,
- earnest,
- fair,
- fearful,
- foreboding,
- graceful,
- gracious,
- heedful,
- helpful,
- impatient,
- in a pucker,
- in a stew,
- indulgent,
- keen,
- lenient,
- loving,
- mindful,
- mindful of others,
- misgiving,
- nervous,
- obliging,
- on tenterhooks,
- overanxious,
- overapprehensive,
- perturbed,
- polite,
- raring,
- regardful,
- respectful,
- strained,
- suspenseful,
- tactful,
- tender,
- tense,
- thirsty,
- thoughtful,
- tolerant,
- troubled,
- uneasy,
- urbane,
- worried,
- zealous
- allergic,
- altricial,
- anaphylactic,
- anserine,
- anserous,
- aquiline,
- avian,
- avicular,
- bashful,
- birdlike,
- birdy,
- columbine,
- cowardly,
- delicate,
- diffident,
- dovelike,
- empathetic,
- empathic,
- fearful,
- fearing,
- fearsome,
- hawklike,
- hyperesthetic,
- hyperpathic,
- hypersensitive,
- in fear,
- irritable,
- itchy,
- jumpy,
- mousy,
- nervous,
- nesting,
- nidicolous,
- nidificant,
- oscine,
- overrefined,
- oversensible,
- oversensitive,
- overtender,
- passerine,
- passible,
- prickly,
- psittacine,
- rabbity,
- rasorial,
- refined,
- responsive,
- scary,
- sensitive,
- shaky,
- shivery,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- startlish,
- supersensitive,
- sympathetic,
- tactful,
- tender,
- tetchy,
- thin-skinned,
- ticklish,
- timid,
- timorous,
- touchy,
- trembling,
- tremulous,
- trepidant,
- trigger-happy
- disquieted
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- afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief; "too upset to say anything"; "spent many disquieted moments"; "distressed about her son's leaving home"; "lapsed into disturbed sleep"; "worried parents"; "a worried frown"; "one last worried check of the sleeping children" related words >
- abashed,
- afflicted,
- affrighted,
- agitated,
- alarmed,
- all-overish,
- anxious,
- anxioused up,
- apprehensive,
- beset,
- bothered,
- cast down,
- chagrined,
- chapfallen,
- concerned,
- confused,
- consternated,
- daunted,
- discomfited,
- discomforted,
- discomposed,
- disconcerted,
- dismayed,
- distressed,
- disturbed,
- embarrassed,
- excited,
- fearful,
- feverish,
- fidgety,
- flurried,
- flustered,
- foreboding,
- frightened,
- hung up,
- ill at ease,
- in a fright,
- in a funk,
- in a pucker,
- in a stew,
- jittery,
- jumpy,
- misgiving,
- mortified,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- on tenterhooks,
- out of countenance,
- overanxious,
- overapprehensive,
- perturbed,
- put-out,
- put-upon,
- restless,
- ruffled,
- shaken,
- shaken up,
- solicitous,
- startled,
- stirred up,
- strained,
- suspenseful,
- tense,
- troubled,
- troublous,
- turbulent,
- uncomfortable,
- uneasy,
- unpeaceful,
- unquiet,
- unsettled,
- upset,
- zealous
- aggressive,
- antagonistic,
- bashful,
- battling,
- bellicose,
- belligerent,
- bloodthirsty,
- bloody,
- bloody-minded,
- chauvinist,
- chauvinistic,
- combative,
- contentious,
- cowardly,
- diffident,
- enemy,
- fearful,
- fearing,
- fearsome,
- ferocious,
- fierce,
- fighting,
- full of fight,
- goosy,
- hawkish,
- hostile,
- in fear,
- inimical,
- jingo,
- jingoish,
- jingoist,
- jingoistic,
- jumpy,
- martial,
- militant,
- militaristic,
- military,
- mousy,
- nervous,
- offensive,
- pugnacious,
- quarrelsome,
- rabbity,
- saber-rattling,
- sanguinary,
- sanguineous,
- savage,
- scary,
- scrappy,
- shaky,
- shivery,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- soldierlike,
- soldierly,
- startlish,
- timid,
- timorous,
- trembling,
- tremulous,
- trepidant,
- truculent,
- unfriendly,
- unpacific,
- unpeaceable,
- unpeaceful,
- warlike,
- warmongering,
- warring
- rousing
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- rousing to activity or heightened action as by spurring or goading; "tossed a rousing political comment into the conversation"
- capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement; "a rousing sermon"; "stirring events such as wars and rescues" related words >
- activating,
- alert,
- alluring,
- animate,
- animated,
- animating,
- animative,
- arousal,
- awakening,
- awful,
- bracing,
- bright,
- brisk,
- challenging,
- cheering,
- cordial,
- crisp,
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- dashing,
- deadly,
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- electrifying,
- encouraging,
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- fearful,
- fervent,
- fresh,
- frightful,
- galvanic,
- galvanizing,
- gay,
- horrible,
- howling,
- inspiring,
- inspiriting,
- intoxicating,
- invigorating,
- invigorative,
- inviting,
- keen,
- lively,
- peppy,
- piquant,
- prompting,
- provocative,
- provoking,
- quickening,
- refreshful,
- refreshing,
- regaling,
- reveille,
- rude awakening,
- spirited,
- sprightly,
- stimulant,
- stimulating,
- stimulative,
- stirring,
- terrible,
- terrific,
- thumping,
- tonic,
- viable,
- vigorous,
- vitalizing,
- whacking,
- zestful,
- zesty
- affecting,
- afflictive,
- alarming,
- awing,
- baffling,
- bewildering,
- bitter,
- bleak,
- bothering,
- cheerless,
- chilling,
- comfortless,
- confounding,
- confusing,
- daunting,
- deplorable,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- deterrent,
- deterring,
- discomforting,
- discomposing,
- disconcerting,
- discouraging,
- disheartening,
- dismal,
- disquieting,
- distracting,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- disturbing,
- dolorific,
- dolorogenic,
- dolorous,
- dreary,
- embarrassing,
- enigmatic,
- fear-inspiring,
- fearful,
- fearsome,
- frightening,
- frightful,
- grievous,
- intricate,
- joyless,
- lamentable,
- mournful,
- moving,
- mysterious,
- mystifying,
- overawing,
- painful,
- pathetic,
- perplexing,
- perturbing,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- poignant,
- problematic,
- puzzling,
- regrettable,
- rueful,
- sad,
- saddening,
- scaring,
- scary,
- sharp,
- sore,
- sorrowful,
- startling,
- touching,
- uncomfortable,
- upsetting,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- wretched
- afraid,
- bashful,
- chicken,
- chickenhearted,
- confused,
- conscious,
- coward,
- cowardly,
- cowed,
- coy,
- daunted,
- demure,
- diffident,
- dismayed,
- fainthearted,
- fearful,
- fearing,
- fearsome,
- funking,
- funky,
- goosy,
- henhearted,
- in fear,
- inarticulate,
- intimidated,
- jumpy,
- lily-livered,
- milk-livered,
- milksoppish,
- milksoppy,
- mousy,
- nervous,
- overtimid,
- overtimorous,
- panic-prone,
- panicky,
- pigeonhearted,
- quailing,
- quivering,
- rabbity,
- recoiling,
- scary,
- self-conscious,
- shaky,
- shamefaced,
- shamefast,
- shivering,
- shivery,
- shrinking,
- shuddering,
- shy,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- soft,
- stammering,
- startlish,
- timid,
- trembling,
- tremulous,
- trepidant,
- trigger-happy,
- undaring,
- unmanly,
- unmanned,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weakhearted,
- white-livered,
- yellow
- apprehensive
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- in fear or dread of possible evil or harm; "apprehensive for one's life"; "apprehensive of danger"
- mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc; "apprehensive about her job"; "not used to a city and worried about small things"; "felt apprehensive about the consequences"
- quick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne related words >
- afraid,
- agitated,
- alive,
- all nerves,
- all-knowing,
- all-overish,
- anxious,
- anxioused up,
- apperceptive,
- appercipient,
- apprehending,
- awake,
- aware,
- bothered,
- cognizant,
- comprehending,
- concerned,
- conscious,
- disquieted,
- disturbed,
- edgy,
- excitable,
- fearful,
- foreboding,
- frightened,
- high-strung,
- in a pucker,
- in a stew,
- in suspense,
- insightful,
- intelligent,
- irritable,
- keyed-up,
- knowing,
- knowledgeable,
- mindful,
- misgiving,
- nerves on edge,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- omniscient,
- on edge,
- on tenterhooks,
- on tiptoe,
- overanxious,
- overapprehensive,
- overstrung,
- panicky,
- perceptive,
- percipient,
- perspicacious,
- perturbed,
- prehensile,
- qualmish,
- qualmy,
- quivering,
- sagacious,
- sensible,
- sentient,
- shrewd,
- solicitous,
- strained,
- suspenseful,
- taut,
- tense,
- troubled,
- understanding,
- uneasy,
- ware,
- wise,
- with bated breath,
- with muscles tense,
- witting,
- zealous
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