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Misgiving synonyms

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doubt
A feeling of uncertainty or distrust:
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  1. A feeling of uncertainty or distrust:
  2. (Obs.) Apprehension or fear
  3. The condition of being unsettled or unresolved:
apprehension
Fearful or uneasy anticipation of the future; dread.
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  1. Fearful or uneasy anticipation of the future; dread.
  2. The ability to apprehend or understand; understanding.
  3. An anxious feeling of foreboding; dread
qualm
A sudden, brief feeling of sickness, faintness, or nausea
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  1. A sudden, brief feeling of sickness, faintness, or nausea
  2. An uneasy feeling about the propriety or rightness of a course of action:
  3. A sudden feeling of uneasiness or doubt; misgiving
hesitation
The act or an instance of hesitating.
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  1. The act or an instance of hesitating.
  2. Uncertainty; indecision
  3. A hesitating or feeling hesitant
compunction
A sting of conscience or a pang of doubt aroused by wrongdoing or the prospect of wrongdoing:
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  1. A sting of conscience or a pang of doubt aroused by wrongdoing or the prospect of wrongdoing:
  2. A sharp feeling of uneasiness brought on by a sense of guilt; remorse
  3. A strong uneasiness caused by a sense of guilt:
qualm
A sudden, brief feeling of sickness, faintness, or nausea
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  1. A sudden, brief feeling of sickness, faintness, or nausea
  2. An uneasy feeling about the propriety or rightness of a course of action:
  3. A sudden feeling of uneasiness or doubt; misgiving
reservation
The act of reserving; a keeping back or withholding:
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  1. The act of reserving; a keeping back or withholding:
  2. Public land set aside for some special use
  3. A doubt or misgiving:
scruple
A very small quantity, amount, or part
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  1. A very small quantity, amount, or part
  2. An uneasy feeling arising from conscience or principle that tends to hinder action:
  3. A feeling of hesitancy, doubt, or uneasiness arising from difficulty in deciding what is right, proper, ethical, etc.; qualm or misgiving about something one thinks is wrong
Find another word for misgiving. In this page you can discover 11 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for misgiving, like: doubt, apprehension, qualm, hesitation, doubt, qualm, compunction, qualm, reservation, scruple and certain.

Sentence Examples

  • The establishment of an orderly administration, one outcome of which was a general fall of prices that made the unwonted regularity of the collection of taxes doubly unwelcome, naturally excited a certain amount of misgiving and resentment; but on the whole the population was prosperous and contented, and under Lord Elphinstone (1853-1860) the presidency passed through the crisis of the Mutiny without any general rising.

  • Great Britain watched the development of Kruger's plans with misgiving, but except on points of detail it was felt for some time to be impossible to bring pressure upon the Transvaal.

  • Thus, in the full anticipation of added renown, and without any misgiving as to ulterior consequences, Galileo set himself, on his return to Florence, to complete his famous but ill-starred work, the Dialogo dei due massimi sistemi del mondo.

  • The king alone appeared to feel no misgiving.

  • She was disappointed at first at the slackness of discipline, but she appears afterwards to have accommodated herself with tolerable success to the worldliness of her environment, though not without intervals of religious misgiving.

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