Synonyms of the word

apprehension

• n. (rare) The physical act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure.
• n. (law) The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest.
• n. The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing…
• n. Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
• n. The faculty by which ideas are conceived or by which perceptions are grasped; understanding.
• n. Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; dread or fear at the prospect of some future ill.

apprehensiveness

• n. the state of being apprehensive.

arrest

• n. A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.
• n. The condition of being stopped, standstill.
• n. (law) The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
• n. A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
• n. A device to physically arrest motion.
• n. (nautical) The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
• n. (obsolete) Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.
• n. (farriery) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To stop the motion of (a person or animal).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To stay, remain.
• v. (transitive) To stop or slow (a process, course etc.).
• v. (transitive) To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.
• v. (transitive) To catch the attention of.

capture

• n. An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.
• n. The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction.
• n. Something that has been captured; a captive.
• n. The recording or storage of something for later playback.
• n. (computing) A particular match found for a pattern in a text string.
• v. To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
• v. To store (as in sounds or image) for later revisitation.
• v. To reproduce convincingly.
• v. To remove or take control of an opponent’s piece in a game (e.g., chess, go, checkers).

catch

• n. (countable) The act of seizing or capturing.
• n. (countable) The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
• n. (countable) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
• n. (uncountable) The game of catching a ball.
• n. (countable) A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
• n. (countable) Something which is captured or caught.
• n. (countable) A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
• n. (countable) A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
• n. (countable, sometimes noun adjunct) A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
• n. (countable) A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
• n. (countable) A fragment of music or poetry.
• n. (obsolete) A state of readiness to capture or seize; an ambush.
• n. (countable, agriculture) A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
• n. (obsolete) A type of strong boat, usually having two masts; a ketch.
• n. (countable, music) A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually…
• n. (countable, music) The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
• n. (countable, cricket, baseball) The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting…
• n. (countable, cricket) A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
• n. (countable, rowing) The first contact of an oar with the water.
• n. (countable, phonetics) A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
• n. Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
• n. A slight remembrance; a trace.
• v. (heading) To capture, overtake.
• v. (heading) To seize hold of.
• v. (heading) To intercept.
• v. (heading) To receive (by being in the way).
• v. (heading) To take in with one's senses or intellect.
• v. (heading) To seize attention, interest.
• v. (heading) To obtain or experience.

collar

• n. Anything that encircles the neck.
• n. A piece of meat from the neck of an animal.
• n. (technology) Any encircling device or structure.
• n. (in compounds) Of or pertaining to a certain category of professions as symbolized by typical clothing.
• n. (botany) The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem.
• n. A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with the esophagus.
• n. (nautical) An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope…
• n. (slang) An arrest.
• v. (transitive) To grab or seize by the collar or neck.
• v. (transitive) To place a collar on, to fit with one.
• v. (transitive) To seize, capture or detain.
• v. (transitive) To preempt, control stringently and exclusively.
• v. (law enforcement, transitive) To arrest.
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To bind in conversation.
• v. (transitive) To roll up (beef or other meat) and bind it with string preparatory to cooking.
• v. (BDSM) To bind a submissive to a dominant under specific conditions or obligations.

discernment

• n. The ability to distinguish; judgement.
• n. Discrimination.
• n. The ability to distinguish between things.
• n. The ability to perceive differences that exist.
• n. The condition of understanding.
• n. Aesthetic discrimination; taste, appreciation.
• n. Perceptiveness.
• n. The ability to make wise judgements; sagacity.
• n. Discretion in judging objectively.

dread

• v. (transitive) To fear greatly.
• v. To anticipate with fear.
• v. (intransitive) To be in dread, or great fear.
• v. (transitive) To style (the hair) into dreadlocks.
• n. Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
• n. Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
• n. Somebody or something dreaded.
• n. (obsolete) A person highly revered.
• n. (obsolete) Fury; dreadfulness.
• n. A Rastafarian.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) dreadlock.
• adj. Terrible; greatly feared.
• adj. (archaic) Awe-inspiring; held in fearful awe.

expectation

• n. The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.
• n. That which is expected or looked for.
• n. The prospect of the future; grounds upon which something excellent is expected to occur; prospect of anything…
• n. The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event.
• n. (statistics) The first moment; the long-run average value of a variable over many independent repetitions…
• n. (colloquial statistics) The arithmetic mean.
• n. (medicine, rare) The leaving of a disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.

fear

• n. (uncountable) A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.
• n. (countable) A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone.
• n. (uncountable) Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns.
• v. (transitive) To feel fear about (something or someone); to be afraid of; to consider or expect with alarm.
• v. (intransitive) To feel fear (about something).
• v. (transitive) To venerate; to feel awe towards.
• v. (transitive) Regret.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause fear to; to frighten.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To be anxious or solicitous for.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To suspect; to doubt.
• adj. (dialectal) Able; capable; stout; strong; sound.

fearfulness

• n. The quality of being fearful.

fright

• n. A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short…
• n. Anything strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion.
• v. (archaic, transitive) To frighten.
• adj. (rare) frightened; afraid; affright.

knowing

• adj. Possessing knowledge or understanding; intelligent.
• adj. Shrewd or showing clever awareness.
• adj. Suggestive of private knowledge.
• adj. Deliberate.
• v. present participle of know.
• n. The act or condition of having knowledge.

misgiving

• n. doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread.

outlook

• n. A place from which something can be viewed.
• n. The view from such a place.
• n. An attitude or point of view.
• n. Expectation for the future.
• v. (transitive) To face down; to outstare.
• v. To inspect throughly; to select.

pinch

• v. To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
• v. To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
• v. To squeeze between two objects.
• v. To steal, usually of something almost trivial or inconsequential.
• v. (slang) To arrest or capture.
• v. (horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
• v. (nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
• v. (hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
• v. (obsolete) To be niggardly or covetous.
• v. To seize; to grip; to bite; said of animals.
• v. (figuratively) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
• v. To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
• v. (obsolete) To complain or find fault.
• n. The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
• n. A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
• n. An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
• n. An organic herbal smoke additive.

prospect

• n. The region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.
• n. A picturesque or panoramic view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape.
• n. A position affording a fine view; a lookout.
• n. Relative position of the front of a building or other structure; face; relative aspect.
• n. The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation.
• n. The potential things that may come to pass, often favorable.
• n. A hope; a hopeful.
• n. (sports) Any player whose rights are owned by a top-level professional team, but who has yet to play a…
• n. (music) The façade of an organ.
• v. (intransitive) To search, as for gold.
• v. (geology, mining) To determine which minerals or metals are present in a location.

savvy

• adj. (informal) Shrewd, well-informed and perceptive.
• v. (informal) To understand.
• interj. (informal) Do you understand?
• n. Shrewdness.

seizure

• n. The act of taking possession, as by force or right of law.
• n. A sudden attack or convulsion, (e.g. an epileptic seizure).
• n. A sudden onset of pain or emotion.
• n. (obsolete) retention within one's grasp or power; possession; ownership.
• n. That which is seized, or taken possession of; a thing laid hold of, or possessed.

understanding

• n. (uncountable) Mental, sometimes emotional process of comprehension, assimilation of knowledge, which is…
• n. (countable) Reason or intelligence, ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge, ability to infer.
• n. (countable) Opinion, judgement or outlook.
• n. (countable) An informal contract; mutual agreement.
• n. (countable) A reconciliation of differences.
• n. (uncountable) Sympathy.
• n. All that people individually sense and feel of themselves.
• adj. Showing compassion.
• v. present participle of understand.