dreading
Awaiting with anxiety
Dreading is anticipating something with anxiety or dread—expecting the worst and feeling unsettled about it: I've been dreading this conversation all week.
The word suggests ongoing apprehension rather than a single moment of fear.
You can dread an event, a task, or even a person's reaction: She's dreading telling her parents.
Troubled mental state
- nervousnessState of anxious unease
- stressPressure, mental or vocal
- uneaseMild persistent worry
- tensionStretched or strained state
apprehension · agitation · restlessness · edginess · angst · fretfulness · jitters · disquiet
Advance sense of future events
- misgivingUneasy feeling of doubt
- doomUnavoidable grim fate
- gloomPervasive dimness or dejection
- pessimismExpecting unfavorable outcomes
ominous · darkness · menace · shadow · chill · sinking feeling · pit in stomach · sense of doom
Extreme, overwhelming fear
- horrorExtreme fear or disgust
- frightSudden intense fear
- alarmUrgent warning signal
- panicUncontrollable sudden fear
trepidation · phobia · cowardice · timidity · avoidance · shrinking · recoiling · cringing
Staying until something arrives
- expectingAwaiting a predicted outcome
- countdownBackward enumeration to zero
- prospectPotential client or opportunity
- loomingAppearing threateningly close
impending · upcoming · inevitable · approaching · bracing · steeling · preparing · foreseeing
worry
Troubled mental state
- nervousnessState of anxious unease
- stressPressure, mental or vocal
- uneaseMild persistent worry
tension · apprehension · agitation · restlessness · edginess · angst · fretfulness · jitters · disquiet · distress
premonition
Advance sense of future events
pessimism · ominous · darkness · menace · shadow · chill · sinking feeling · pit in stomach · sense of doom · dark cloud
terror
Extreme, overwhelming fear
panic · trepidation · phobia · cowardice · timidity · avoidance · shrinking · recoiling · cringing · flinching
awaiting
Staying until something arrives
- expectingAwaiting a predicted outcome
- countdownBackward enumeration to zero
- prospectPotential client or opportunity
looming · impending · upcoming · inevitable · approaching · bracing · steeling · preparing · foreseeing · envisioning
- mindsetsgrowth mindset, fixed mindset, mindset, abundance mindset, scarcity mindset
- thinkingthinking, reasoning, thought, ponder, contemplate
- anticipationanticipating, expectation, expectancy, expecting, awaiting
- uneasyanxious, nervous, jittery, edgy, tense
dreadinganticipating
Expecting something to happen
looking forward to · longing for · wanting · craving · hoping for
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