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Definición y significado de misgiving
misgiving
- present participle of misgive (verb)
Definición
misgive (v.)
1.suggest fear or doubt"Her heart misgave her that she had acted inexcusably"
misgiving (n.)
1.the state of being unsure of something
2.doubt about someone's honesty
3.painful expectation
4.uneasiness about the fitness of an action
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Merriam Webster
MisgiveMis*give" (?), v. t. [imp. Misgave (?); p. p. Misgiven (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Misgiving.]
1. To give or grant amiss. [Obs.] Laud.
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.
So doth my heart misgive me in these conflicts
What may befall him, to his harm and ours. Shak.
Such whose consciences misgave them, how ill they had deserved. Milton.
3. To suspect; to dread. [Obs.] Shak.
MisgiveMis*give", v. i. To give out doubt and apprehension; to be fearful or irresolute. “My mind misgives.” Shak.
misgivingmis*giv"ing, n. Evil premonition; doubt; distrust; a feeling of apprehension; -- used commonly in the plural. “Suspicious and misgivings.” South.
Sinónimos
misgiving (n.)
apprehension, compunction, distrust, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, fluctuation, hesitation, incertitude, indecision, indecisiveness, indetermination, irresolution, mistrust, qualm, scepticism, scruple, stress, suspicion, trepidation, uncertainty
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Diccionario analógico
misgiving (n.)
timidity; bashfulness; shyness; timidness; timorousness[Classe]
hesitance; hesitancy; hesitation; vacillation; wavering[Classe]
disbelief[Classe]
misgiving; doubt; uncertainty; incertitude; dubiety; doubtfulness; dubiousness; question[ClasseHyper.]
douter (fr)[Nominalisation]
cognitive state, state of mind - emotion[Hyper.]
fluid, unstable[CeQuiEst~]
doubt - doubtful, dubious, dubitative - dubious - diffident, doubtful, faltering, hesitant, tentative[Dérivé]
misgiving (n.)
unquiet; disquietude; angst; anxiety; apprehension; solicitude; concern; worry[Classe]
suspicion[Classe]
awkwardness; embarrassment[Classe]
(expectation; wait)[termes liés]
misgiving (n.)
expectancy, expectation, future prospects, outlook, perspective, prospect[Hyper.]
anticipate, have a feeling, have a foreboding, have a premonition of, have a presentiment of, have a scary feeling, have misgivings about, misgive, sense, sense beforehand, sense in advance - apprehend, quail at[Dérivé]
misgiving (n.)
angst, anxiety, apprehension, concern, disquietude, solicitude, unquiet, worry[Hyper.]
anticipate, have a feeling, have a foreboding, have a premonition of, have a presentiment of, have a scary feeling, have misgivings about, misgive, sense, sense beforehand, sense in advance - scruple - scruple - scruple - scrupulous[Dérivé]
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