misgiving (root: misgive)

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: mis=giv=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

misgiving, n. 

 Evil premonition; doubt; distrust; a feeling of apprehension; -- used commonly in the plural.  South.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

misgiving, n. (usu. in pl.) a feeling of mistrust or apprehension.

THESAURUS

misgiving

Pyrrhonism, agitated, agitation, all-overish, all-overs, angst, anxiety, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat, anxioused up, anxiousness, apprehension, apprehensive, apprehensiveness, boding, bothered, cankerworm of care, care, concern, concerned, concernment, diffidence, discomfort, disquiet, disquieted, disquietude, distress, distrust, distrustfulness, disturbance, disturbed, doubt, doubtfulness, dread, dubiety, dubiousness, fear, fearful, foreboding, forebodingness, funny feeling, half-belief, hesitation, in a pucker, in a stew, inquietude, leeriness, malaise, misdoubt, mistrust, mistrustfulness, nervous, nervous strain, nervous tension, nervousness, on tenterhooks, overanxiety, overanxious, overapprehensive, perturbation, perturbed, pins and needles, premonition, prenotion, presage, presentiment, pucker, qualm, qualmish, qualmishness, qualmy, question, scruple, scrupulousness, self-doubt, shadow of doubt, skepticalness, skepticism, solicitous, solicitude, stew, strain, strained, suspense, suspenseful, suspicion, suspiciousness, tense, tension, total skepticism, trouble, troubled, uncertainty, unease, uneasiness, uneasy, unquietness, upset, vexation, wariness, worry, zeal, zealous

ROGET THESAURUS

misgiving

Fear

N fear, timidity, diffidence, want of confidence, apprehensiveness, fearfulness, solicitude, anxiety, care, apprehension, misgiving, feeze, mistrust, suspicion, qualm, hesitation, nervousness, restlessness, inquietude, disquietude, worry, concern, batophobia, heartquake, flutter, trepidation, fear and trembling, perturbation, tremor, quivering, shaking, trembling, throbbing heart, palpitation, ague fit, cold sweat, abject fear, mortal funk, heartsinking, despondency, despair, fright, affright, affrightment, boof alarm, dread, awe, terror, horror, dismay, consternation, panic, scare, stampede (of horses), intimidation, terrorism, reign of terror, bug bear, bugaboo, scarecrow, hobgoblin, nightmare, Gorgon, mormo, ogre, Hurlothrumbo, raw head and bloody bones, fee-faw-fum, bete noire, enfant terrible, alarmist, fearing, frightened, in fear, in a fright, haunted with the fear of, afeard, afraid, fearful, timid, timorous, nervous, diffident, coy, faint- hearted, tremulous, shaky, afraid of one's shadow, apprehensive, restless, fidgety, more frightened than hurt, aghast, awe-stricken, horror-stricken, terror-stricken, panic- stricken, awestruck, awe-stricken, horror-struck, frightened to death, white as a sheet, pale, pale as a ghost, pale as death, pale as ashes, breathless, in hysterics, inspiring fear, alarming, formidable, redoubtable, perilous, portentous, fearful, dread, dreadful, fell, dire, direful, shocking, terrible, terrific, tremendous, horrid, horrible, horrific, ghastly, awful, awe-inspiring, revolting, Gorgonian, in terrorem, Int, angels and ministers of grace defend us!, ante tubam trepidat, horresco referens, one's heart failing one, obstupui steteruntque comae et vox faucibus haesit, a dagger of the mind, expertus metuit, fain would I climb but that I fear to fall, fear is the parent of cruelty, Gorgons and hydras and chimeras dire, omnia tuta timens, our fears do make us traitors.

Doubt

N unbelief doubt, unbelief, disbelief, misbelief, discredit, miscreance, infidelity, dissent, change of opinion, retraction, doubt, skepticism, scepticism, misgiving, demure, distrust, mistrust, cynicism, misdoubt, suspicion, jealousy, scruple, qualm, onus probandi, incredibility, incredibleness, incredulity, doubter, skeptic, cynic, unbeliever, unbelieving, skeptical, sceptical, incredulous as to, skeptical as to, distrustful as to, shy as to, suspicious of, doubting, doubtful, disputable, unworthy of, undeserving of belief, questionable, suspect, suspicious, open to suspicion, open to doubt, staggering, hard to believe, incredible, unbelievable, not to be believed, inconceivable, impossible, fallible, undemonstrable, controvertible, cum grano salis, with a grain of salt, with grains of allowance, fronti nulla fides, nimium ne crede colori, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes, I fear the Greeks even when bearing gifts, beware of Greeks bearing gifts, credat Judaeus Apella, let those believe who may, ad tristem partem stenua est suspicio.