fear

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. (uncountable) A strong, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.
2. (countable) A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone.
3. (uncountable) Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns.
4. (UK, countable, uncountable, with-definite-article) A feeling of dread and anxiety when waking after drinking a lot of alcohol, wondering what one did while drunk.

Verb

1. (transitive) To be afraid of (something or someone); to consider or expect (something or someone) with alarm.
2. (intransitive) To feel fear.
3. (intransitive) To worry about, to feel concern for, to be afraid for [with for].
4. (transitive) To venerate; to feel awe towards.
5. (transitive) To regret.
6. (obsolete, transitive) To cause fear to; to frighten.
7. (obsolete, transitive) To be anxious or solicitous for.
8. (obsolete, transitive) To suspect; to doubt.

Adj

Able; capable; stout; strong; sound.

Sinónimos

dread

fright

be afraid

terror

afraid

be afraid of

alarm

anxiety

apprehension

horror

awe

scare

😨

concern

worry

afraid of

be frightened

timidity

panic

be scared

frightened

frighten

reverence

apprehend

scared

revere

uneasiness

anguish

misgivings

misgiving

agony

doubt

suspicion

cowardice

consternation

venerate

trepidation

care

phobia

tremble

dismay

fearfulness

danger

❗

solicitude

startle

be anxious

timidness

disquiet

affright

funk

terrify

Traducións

peur

😨

paura

😨

Angst

😨

craindre

😨

miedo

😨

Furcht

😨

crainte

😨

temer

😨

temere

😨

medo

😨

temor

😨

fürchten

😨

angst

😨

timore

😨

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/fɪə/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: feer

Herdado de Old English: fǣr

Relativo a neerlandés: gevaar

Relativo a alemán: Gefahr

Relativo a sueco: fara

Relativo a latín: perīculum

Relativo a albanés: frikë

Relativo a romanés: frică

Herdado de Middle English: feren

Herdado de Old English: fǣran

Relativo a neerlandés: -

Herdado de Middle English: fere

Herdado de Old English: fēre

Relativo a escocés: fere

Relativo a Middle High German: gevüere

Relativo a sueco: för

Relativo a islandés: færr

In summary

From Middle English feer, fere, fer, from Old English fǣr, ġefǣr (“calamity, sudden danger, peril, sudden attack, terrible sight”), from Proto-Germanic *fērō, *fērą (“danger”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to go through, carry forth, try”). Cognate with Dutch gevaar (“danger, risk, peril”), German Gefahr (“danger, risk, hazard”), Swedish fara (“danger, risk, peril”), Latin perīculum (“danger, risk, trial”), Albanian frikë (“fear, danger”), Romanian frică. Doublet of peril.
The verb is from Middle English feren, from Old English fǣran (“to frighten, raven”), from the noun. Cognate with the archaic Dutch verb varen (“to fear; to cause fear”).

Frases

The boy knew the desert sensed his fear .

To forget his fear of flying , he imagined how the stewardess would look like in a bikini .