Definition of Misgiving

1. Noun. Uneasiness about the fitness of an action.

Exact synonyms: Qualm, Scruple
Generic synonyms: Anxiety
Derivative terms: Misgive, Scruple, Scruple, Scruple, Scrupulous

2. Noun. Painful expectation.
Exact synonyms: Apprehension
Generic synonyms: Expectation, Outlook, Prospect
Derivative terms: Apprehend, Misgive

3. Noun. Doubt about someone's honesty.

Definition of Misgiving

1. n. Evil premonition; doubt; distrust.

Definition of Misgiving

1. Noun. doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Misgiving

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Misgiving

misfunctioned
misfunctioning
misfunctions
misgauge
misgauged
misgauges
misgauging
misgave
misgendered
misget
misgetting
misgive
misgiven
misgives
misgiving (current term)
misgivings
misgo
misgoes
misgoing
misgone
misgot
misgotten
misgovern
misgovernance
misgoverned
misgoverning
misgovernment
misgovernments
misgoverns

Literary usage of Misgiving

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Documentary History of American Industrial Society by American Bureau of Industrial Research, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Eugene Allen Gilmore, John Rogers Commons, Helen Laura Sumner (1910)
"(b) misgiving New York Weekly Tribune, Aug. 14, 1847, p. 5. Having been far away at the West when this act was passed, and not having been able to lay hands ..."

2. The Growth of British Policy: An Historical Essay by John Robert Seeley (1895)
"But the country could not forget its misgiving about militarism. After all the second Revolution did end like the first by giving a military tinge to our ..."

3. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1846)
"antagonist theory, no deep misgiving, so long as it only exists elementally in the mind, and has not come to a regular full belief, precludes a man from ..."

4. The Greek Christian Poets and the English Poets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1863)
"The writer, though also a translator, feels less misgiving than usual in offering to the reader, in such English as is possible, this spirited and beautiful ..."

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