Misgive \Mis*give"\, v. t. [imp. Misgave; p. p. Misgiven; p.
pr. & vb. n. Misgiving.]
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1. To give or grant amiss. [Obs.] --Laud.
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2. Specifically: To give doubt and apprehension to, instead
of confidence and courage; to impart fear to; to make
irresolute; -- usually said of the mind or heart, and
followed by the objective personal pronoun.
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So doth my heart misgive me in these conflicts
What may befall him, to his harm and ours. --Shak.
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Such whose consciences misgave them, how ill they
had deserved. --Milton.
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3. To suspect; to dread. [Obs.] --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
misgiving \mis*giv"ing\, n.
Evil premonition; doubt; distrust; a feeling of apprehension;
-- used commonly in the plural. "Suspicious and misgivings."
--South.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
misgiving
n 1: uneasiness about the fitness of an action [syn: scruple, qualm]
2: painful expectation [syn: apprehension]
3: doubt about someone's honesty [syn: mistrust, distrust,
suspicion]
WordNet (r) 2.0
107 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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