Words Like FEAR
    
   We have put together a list of words that are similar to FEAR.
    
    
    
        
            27 Alternative Words Similar to fear
   
            
               
            
            
        
       
    
    
        6 examples of fear
           
        
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        We should not fear the Communists!
    
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        they hushed it up out of fear of public reaction
    
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        the French treat food with gentle reverence
    
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        the Chinese reverence for the dead
    
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        his respect for the law bordered on veneration
    
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        We venerate genius
    
       
    
    
        10 definitions of fear
           
        
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        A variant of fere, a mate, a companion.
    
    
    
 
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        A painful emotion or passion excited by the expectation of evil, or the apprehension of impending danger; apprehension; anxiety; solicitude; alarm; dread.
    
    
    
 
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        Apprehension of incurring, or solicitude to avoid, God's wrath; the trembling and awful reverence felt toward the Supreme Being.
    
    
    
 
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        Respectful reverence for men of authority or worth.
    
    
    
 
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        That which causes, or which is the object of, apprehension or alarm; source or occasion of terror; danger; dreadfulness.
    
    
    
 
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        To feel a painful apprehension of; to be afraid of; to consider or expect with emotion of alarm or solicitude.
    
    
    
 
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        To have a reverential awe of; to be solicitous to avoid the displeasure of.
    
    
    
 
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        To be anxious or solicitous for; now replaced by fear for.
    
    
    
 
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        To affright; to terrify; to drive away or prevent approach of by fear.