Emotions
Synonyms for fear
Synonyms for fear: dread and reverence. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for fear
Each of these belongs to a different sense of fear, which is why the meaning beside them changes down the list.
be afraid or scared of
I fear the winters in Moscow.
The true synonym
dread
Same sentence, swapped: I dread the winters in Moscow.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- reverence
- enjoy
- trip
regard with feelings of respect and reverence
Fear God as your father.
The true synonym
reverence
Same sentence, swapped: Reverence God as your father.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- upset
- trouble
- alarm
Where fear turns up in the game
fear is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where fear is the trap
- carenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is attention, in the sense "the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something", so fear is there to be ruled out.
- carenoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is maintenance, in the sense "activity involved in maintaining something in good working order", so fear is there to be ruled out.
- fussverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is fret, in the sense "worry unnecessarily or excessively", with fear sitting one tile away.
Play fear
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so fear reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. fear carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.