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Definition: Misgiving |
MisgivingNoun1. Uneasiness about the fitness of an action. 2. Painful expectation. 3. Doubt about someone's honesty. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "misgiving" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Synonyms: MisgivingSynonyms: apprehension (n), distrust (n), mistrust (n), qualm (n), scruple (n), suspicion (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fear | Noun: fear, timidity, diffidence, want of confidence; apprehensiveness, fearfulness; Adjective: solicitude, anxiety, care, apprehension, misgiving; feeze; mistrust; (doubt); suspicion, qualm; hesitation; (irresolution). |
Unbelief Doubt | Doubt; (uncertainty); skepticism, scepticism, misgiving, demure; distrust, mistrust, cynicism; misdoubt, suspicion, jealousy, scruple, qualm; onus probandi. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Misgiving |
| English words defined with "misgiving": Gaingiving ♦ Misdoubtful. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "misgiving": Misdoubtful. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Maybe they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Misgiving" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 58.33% of the time. "Misgiving" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 58.33% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (singular) | 41.67% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 12 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
misgiving | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "misgiving"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mosbesim (disbelief, discredit, distrust, doubt, incredulity, misfaith, mistrust, suspicion, unbelief), i ndruajtur (reserved, self conscious, shamefaced, sheep-faced, sheepish, shrinking, shy, tentative, timid, timorous, tremulant, tremulous), i mosbesueshëm, i dyshimtë (dingy, dodgy, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, fishy, left handed, moot, precarious, problematic, queer, suspect, suspicious, unassured, uncertain, unreliable, wildcat), dyshim (distrust, doubt, dubiety, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, qualm, query, suspicion, suspiciousness). (various references) | |
Arabic | ريب شك (doubt), ظن (calculate, fancy, guess, imagine, reckon, suppose, supposition, surmise, suspect, think), شك (discount, discredit, dispute, doubt, fall under suspicion, incertitude, inkling, odor, odour, qualms, query, question, scepticism, scrupulosity, smell a rat, suspicion, unbelief, uncertainty, wonder). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | опасение (apprehension, contemplation, fear, qualm, uneasiness), лошо предчувствие (foreboding). (various references) | |
Chinese | 担忧. (various references) | |
Czech | pochybnost (dubiety, question, suspension), obava (apprehension, fear). (various references) | |
Farsi | ترس (Awful, Dismay, Dread, Fray, Horror), عدم اطمینان (Qualm), شبهه (Doubt), بیم (Awe, Care, Dread, Phobia, Qualm, Scare, Scruple, Scrupulosity), بدگمانی (Distrust, Mistrust, Suspicion). (various references) | |
Finnish | paha aavistus (foreboding), epäilys (doubt, scruple, suspicion), epäily (doubt, scruple, suspicion). (various references) | |
French | doute, crainte. (various references) | |
German | Befürchtung (apprehension, fear). (various references) | |
Greek | προαίσθηση κακού, φόβοσ (affright, apprehension, consternation, dismay, dread, fear, fearfulness, fright, funk, panic, scare, timorousness), ενδιασμόσ, δισταγμός (hesitation). (various references) | |
Hebrew | פקפוק (doubt, hesitancy, hesitation, vacillation), חשש (anxiety, apprehension, fear), ספקות (doubtfulness). (various references) | |
Hungarian | aggodalom (alarm, anguish, anxiety, care, concern, disquietude, flutter, misgivings, worry), rossz előérzetű, kétség (doubt, misgivings, query, question, scruple, suspense), kételkedés (doubt, scepticism, skepticism), gyanakvó (cagey, cagy, defiant, distrustful, mistrustful, suspicious, testy, trustless, yellow), gyanakvás (distrust, mistrust, suspiciousness), bizalmatlan (mistrustful, shy), balsejtelem (presentiment). (various references) | |
Indonesian | perasaan kuatir. (various references) | |
Italian | timore (alarm, apprehension, awe, dread, fear, fright, funk), presentimento (augury, foreboding, presentiment), dubbio (ambiguous, borderline, discredit, doubt, doubtful, doubts, dubious, incertitude, quandary, queer, query, question, questionable, reflection, reflexion, uncertain, unsure), apprensione (anxiety, apprehension, qualm, suspense). (various references) | |
Manx | ourys (agnosticism, distrust, doubt, doubtfulness, scepticism, suspicion, suspiciousness), mee-ourys, drogh-ourys (apprehension, qualm, qualmish). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | isgivingmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | receio (apprehension, apprehensiveness, awe, dismay, distrust, fear, mistrust, trepidation), pressentimento (augury, feeling, foreboding, hunch, inkling, omen, premonition, presage, presentiment), inquietação (anxiety, care, colorwash, colourwash, concern, discomfort, disquiet, disquietude, distemper, fidget, fret, inquietude, jactitation, preoccupation, quicksilver, uneasiness, unrest, worry), desconfiança (diffidence, distrust, jaundice, mistrust, mistrustfulness, surmise, suspicion), dúvida (demur, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, mind-breaker, objection, puzzle, query, scruple, suspense, suspicion), apreensão (apprehension, apprehensiveness, arrest, capture, creeps, prehension, seizing, seizure, sense, sequestration). (various references) | |
Romanian | presimţiri rele, presimţire rea (foreboding), presimţire (divination, handsel, hunch, presentiment), îndoialã (discredit, doubt, hesitation, incertitude, peradventure, quandary, question, vacillation, wavering). (various references) | |
Russian | опасение (anxiety, apprehension, apprehensions, fear, qualm). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | slutnja (foreboding, hunch, presage), bojazan. (various references) | |
Spanish | presentimiento (boding, feeling, foreboding, presage, presentiment, prognostication). (various references) | |
Swedish | farhåga (apprehension, fear, qualm), betänklighet (apprehension, doubt, qualm). (various references) | |
Turkish | kuruntu (chimera, cobweb, delusion, fancy, fantasy, fears, hip, hypochondria, imagination, phantasy, shyness, specter, spectre, the dismals, unfounded suspicion, vapor, vapour, vision), kuşku (disbelief, distrust, doubt, fears, impeachment, quandary, query, question, surmise, suspicion, uneasiness), korku (affright, alarm, apprehension, awe, dismay, dread, fear, fright, funk, gothic, horror, phobia, scare, trepidation). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | побоювання (anticipation, apprehension, apprehensiveness, fear, trembling). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | mối nghi ngờ, nỗi lo âu, nỗi e sợ mối nghi ngại. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "misgiving": misgivings. (additional references) | |
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"Misgiving" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: misgave, misgivingly, misguiving. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "misgiving" (pronounced mi'sgi"ving) |
| 6 | -s g i" v i ng | thanksgiving. |
| 5 | -g i" v i ng | forgiving, giving, unforgiving. |
| 4 | -i" v i ng | living, reliving, sieving. |
| 3 | -v i ng | approving, absolving, achieving, arriving, behaving, believing, braving, calving, caregiving, carving, caving, conceiving, conniving, conserving, craving, curving, deceiving, delving, depriving, deriving, deserving, disapproving, disbelieving, dissolving, diving, driving, earthmoving, engraving, evolving, grieving, halving, having, heaving, improving, interleaving, interweaving, involving, jiving, leaving, lifesaving, loving, misbehaving, moving, observing, paving, perceiving, preserving, proving, raving, receiving, relieving, removing, reserving, resolving, retrieving, reviving, revolving, revving, saving, serving, shaving, shelving, shoving, skydiving, solving, starving, staving, striving, surviving, thieving, thriving, unbelieving, undeserving, unnerving, unswerving, waiving, waving, weaving. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-g-i-i-i-m-n-s-v" | |
-3 letters: giving, vising. | |
-4 letters: miggs, minis. | |
-5 letters: gigs, gins, migg, migs, mini, nims, nisi, sign, sing, vigs, vims. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-g-i-i-i-m-n-s-v" | |
+1 letter: misgivings. | |
+5 letters: gingivectomies. | |
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