'Misgiving' definitions:
Definition of 'misgiving'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Misgiving'
From: GCIDE
- Misgive \Mis*give"\, v. t. [imp. Misgave; p. p. Misgiven; p. pr. & vb. n. Misgiving.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To give or grant amiss. [Obs.] --Laud. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- So doth my heart misgive me in these conflicts What may befall him, to his harm and ours. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Such whose consciences misgave them, how ill they had deserved. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To suspect; to dread. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'misgiving'
From: GCIDE
- misgiving \mis*giv"ing\, n. Evil premonition; doubt; distrust; a feeling of apprehension; -- used commonly in the plural. "Suspicious and misgivings." --South. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'misgiving'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- agitated,
- agitation,
- all-overish,
- all-overs,
- angst,
- anxiety,
- anxiety hysteria,
- anxiety neurosis,
- anxious,
- anxious bench,
- anxious concern,
- anxious seat,
- anxioused up,
- anxiousness,
- apprehension,
- apprehensive,
- apprehensiveness,
- boding,
- bothered,
- cankerworm of care,
- care,
- concern,
- concerned,
- concernment,
- diffidence,
- discomfort,
- disquiet,
- disquieted,
- disquietude,
- distress,
- distrust,
- distrustfulness,
- disturbance,
- disturbed,
- doubt,
- doubtfulness,
- dread,
- dubiety,
- dubiousness,
- fear,
- fearful,
- foreboding,
- forebodingness,
- funny feeling,
- half-belief,
- hesitation,
- in a pucker,
- in a stew,
- inquietude,
- leeriness,
- malaise,
- misdoubt,
- mistrust,
- mistrustfulness,
- nervous,
- nervous strain,
- nervous tension,
- nervousness,
- on tenterhooks,
- overanxiety,
- overanxious,
- overapprehensive,
- perturbation,
- perturbed,
- pins and needles,
- premonition,
- prenotion,
- presage,
- presentiment,
- pucker,
- Pyrrhonism,
- qualm,
- qualmish,
- qualmishness,
- qualmy,
- question,
- scruple,
- scrupulousness,
- self-doubt,
- shadow of doubt,
- skepticalness,
- skepticism,
- solicitous,
- solicitude,
- stew,
- strain,
- strained,
- suspense,
- suspenseful,
- suspicion,
- suspiciousness,
- tense,
- tension,
- total skepticism,
- trouble,
- troubled,
- uncertainty,
- unease,
- uneasiness,
- uneasy,
- unquietness,
- upset,
- vexation,
- wariness,
- worry,
- zeal,
- zealous