misgiving
Other forms: misgivings
If you have misgivings about something, it means you're worried that it's not a good idea. Trying to fall asleep the night before a test, you might have misgivings about having studied so little.
Misgivings are feelings of doubt you experience about something before you do it. As you get closer to the time you actually get on the airplane, you might begin to have misgivings about traveling far away to go to college, or you might have misgivings about joining the army to pay for your education.
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uneasiness about the fitness of an action
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painful expectation
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synonyms:
apprehension
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type of:
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expectation, outlook, prospect
belief about (or mental picture of) the future
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expectation, outlook, prospect
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doubt about someone's honesty
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type of:
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doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, incertitude, uncertainty
the state of being unsure of something
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doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, incertitude, uncertainty
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Vocabulary lists containing misgiving
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This scathing dramatization of the Salem Witch Trials is also an allegory of Senator Joseph McCarthy's pursuit of Communists in the 1950s.
In the 1940s, a working class African-American family in Chicago must decide how to best spend a ten-thousand dollar insurance payout.