fear

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈfɪə/|[ˈfɪə̯]|/ˈfɪː/|/ˈfɪjə/    美 /ˈfɪə/|[ˈfɪə̯]|/ˈfɪɚ/|[ˈfɪɚ] ~ [ˈfɪɹ̩]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A strong, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat. uncountable
    — He was struck by fear on seeing the snake.
  2. A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone in particular. countable
    — Not everybody has the same fears.
  3. Something one is afraid of; the object of one’s fear. countable
    — Spiders are my greatest fear.
  4. Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns. uncountable
    — The feare of the Lord is the beginning of wisedome.
  5. A feeling of dread and anxiety when waking after drinking a lot of alcohol, wondering what one did while drunk. UK,countable,uncountable,with-definite-article
    — Her feeling of humiliation had intensified as the day had gone on and her hangover had worsened. She now also had 'the fear' to contend with, […]
动词 v.
  1. To be afraid of (something or someone); to consider or expect (something or someone) with alarm. transitive
    — I fear the worst will happen.
  2. To feel fear. intransitive
    — Never fear; help is always near.
  3. To worry about, to feel concern for, to be afraid for [with for]. intransitive
    — She fears for her son’s safety.
  4. To venerate; to feel awe towards. transitive
    — People who fear God can be found in Christian churches.
  5. To regret. transitive
    — I fear I have bad news for you: your husband has died.
  6. To cause fear to; to frighten. obsolete,transitive
    — Thenne the knyghte sayd to syre Gawayn / bynde thy wounde or thy blee chaunge / for thou bybledest al thy hors and thy fayre armes /[…]/ For who someuer is hurte with this blade he shalle neuer be staunched of bledynge / Thenne ansuerd gawayn hit greueth me but lytyl / thy grete wordes shalle not feare me ne lasse my courage
  7. To be anxious or solicitous for. obsolete,transitive
    — Fearst thou thy person? thou shalt haue a guard:
  8. To suspect; to doubt. obsolete,transitive
    — Fear you not her courage?
形容词 adj.
  1. Able; capable; stout; strong; sound. dialectal
    — hale and fear

词形变化

fears plural fears present,singular,third-person fearing participle,present feared participle,past feared past more fear comparative most fear superlative feer alternative

词汇关系

近义词
fear afraidness
反义词
courage belittle contemn
上位词
emotion
下位词
affright alarm anxiety apprehension awe caution consternation creeps dismay dread foreboding fright heebie-jeebies horror nervousness panic petrification phobia scare scaredness tentativeness terror trepidation uneasiness wariness willies worry
衍生词
affear antifear fear campaign fearfest fearful fear gortha fearless fearlike fearmonger fear monger fearnaught fear of missing out fearscape fearsome fearthought for fear of for fear that geometry of fear have no fear of ice cold beer microfear nightfear night-fear night fear no fear overfear put the fear of God into rub the fear of God into snake fear stage fear strike fear technofear unfear water fear water-fear without fear or favour Allah-fearing fearable fearer fear not fools rush in where angels fear to tread God-fearing gods-fearing I fear never fear water-fearing
相关词
have one's heart in one's boots intimidation one's heart in one's mouth one's heart in one's throat sinking feeling terrorism afraid cowardly shy

词源

词源 1
From Middle English feer, fere, fer (“fear”), from Old English fǣr, ġefǣr (“calamity, sudden danger, peril, sudden attack, terrible sight”), from Proto-Germanic *fērō, *fērą (“danger”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to go through, carry forth, try”). Cognate with Dutch gevaar (“danger, risk, peril”), German Gefahr (“danger, hazard, risk”), Danish fare (“danger, hazard, risk”), Faroese and Icelandic fár (“accident, anger, calamity”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk fare (“danger”), Swedish fara (“danger, risk, peril”), Latin perīculum (“danger, risk, trial”), Ancient Greek πεῖρα (peîra, “trial, experiment”), Armenian փորձ (pʻorj, “attempt”). Doublet of peril.
The verb is from Middle English feren, from Old English fǣran (“to frighten, raven”), from the noun. Cognate with the archaic Dutch verb varen (“to fear, to cause fear”).
词源 2
From Middle English fere, feore, from Old English fēre (“able to go, fit for service”), from Proto-Germanic *fēriz (“passable”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to put across, ferry”). Cognate with Scots fere, feir (“well, active, sound”), Middle High German gevüere (“able, capable, fit, serviceable”), Swedish för (“capable, able, stout”), Icelandic fær (“able”). Related to fare.
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