Misgiving

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  • noun. Doubt, distrust, or apprehension.
  • noun. A feeling of misgiving.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A failing of confidence; doubt; distrust.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Evil premonition; doubt; distrust; a feeling of apprehension; -- used commonly in the plural.
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  • noun. doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. painful expectation
  • noun. uneasiness about the fitness of an action
  • noun. doubt about someone's honesty
    • Word Usage
    "This was quite intolerable; a misgiving was a warning voice from God, which should be attended to as a man valued his soul."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    anxiety  doubt  doubtfulness  dubiety  dubiousness  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Thanksgiving  forgiving  giving  living  outliving  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    compunction  dismay  distrust  foreboding  indecision  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Pyrrhonism  agitated  agitation  all-overish  all-overs  
    verb-stem
    misgive  
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