English words for 'Initialism of fear of missing out.'
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- A confrontational game in which the participants move toward each other at high speed (usually in automobiles); the player who turns first to avoid colliding into the other is the "chicken" (that is, the loser).
- (uncountable) The game of dare.
- (countable, Polari) A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair; compare chickenhawk.
- (uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
- (countable) A domesticated subspecies of red junglefowl (Gallus gallus domesticus).
- (countable, slang, sometimes derogatory) A young or inexperienced person.
- (slang, US) A kilogram of cocaine.
- (preceded by definite article) A simple dance in which the movements of a chicken are imitated.
- (countable, slang, sometimes derogatory) A coward.
- a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy
- a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops
- the flesh of a chicken used for food
- a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl
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verb
- To be apprehensive; to fear.
- To acknowledge the existence of (something); to recognize.
- (law enforcement) To seize or take (a person) by legal process; to arrest.
- To understand.
- To anticipate (something, usually unpleasant); especially, to anticipate (something) with anxiety, dread, or fear; to dread, to fear.
- To be or become aware of (something); to perceive.
- To be of opinion, believe, or think; to suppose.
- To have a conception of (something); to consider, to regard.
- To take hold of (something) with understanding; to conceive (something) in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand.
- get the meaning of something
- take into custody
- anticipate with dread or anxiety
adj
- filled with fear or apprehension
- having feelings of aversion or unwillingness
- feeling worry or concern or insecurity
- filled with regret or concern; used often to soften an unpleasant statement
- Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear.
- Worried about, feeling concern for, fearing for (someone or something). [with for]
- Regretful, sorry; expressing a reluctance to face an unpleasant situation. [with that (+ clause) or clause; or with so or not]
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noun
- an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
- A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.
- Someone strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion.
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- fear resulting from the awareness of danger
- a clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time
- a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event
- an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger
- A sudden attack; a disturbance.
- A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.
- Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger.
- A device intended to warn or give notice of approaching danger.
- A mechanical device for awaking people, or rousing their attention.
- Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise.
- An instance of an alarm ringing, beeping or clanging, to give a noise signal at a certain time.
verb
- warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness
- fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised
- (transitive, of a device) To produce a warning of approaching danger or necessary action; to emit a signal intended to rouse a recipient to vigilance or put them on the alert.
- (transitive) To give (someone) notice of approaching danger or necessary action; to rouse to vigilance; to put on the alert.
- (transitive) To call to arms for defense.
- (transitive) To keep in excitement; to disturb.
- (transitive) To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear.
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- (intransitive) To feel fear.
- be afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible or probable situation or event
- (transitive) To venerate; to feel awe towards.
- (intransitive) To worry about, to feel concern for, to be afraid for [with for].
- (transitive) To regret.
- (transitive) To be afraid of (something or someone); to consider or expect (something or someone) with alarm.
- be sorry; used to introduce an unpleasant statement
- be uneasy or apprehensive about
- be afraid or scared of; be frightened of
- regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of
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- (countable) A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone in particular.
- (countable) Something one is afraid of; the object of one’s fear.
- (uncountable) A strong, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.
- (UK, with definite article, "the fear") A feeling of dread and anxiety when waking after drinking a lot of alcohol, wondering what one did while drunk.
- (uncountable) Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns.
- an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
- an anxious feeling
- a feeling of profound respect for someone or something
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noun
- excessive or uncontrollable fear
- neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions
- state of violent mental agitation
- (informal, psychopathology) Synonym of conversion disorder.
- Behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotions, in a wide range from joy to panic but usually including anxiety or fear.
- (medicine, nosologically dated) A mental disorder characterized by emotional excitability etc. without an organic cause.
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adj
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- (slang, chiefly in the plural) Clipping of dreadlock.
- Somebody or something dreaded.
- Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
- A Rastafarian.
- (military, nautical, historical, slang) Clipping of dreadnought.
- Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
- fearful expectation or anticipation
verb
- (intransitive) To jump back in fear.
- (Scotland, transitive, intransitive) To throw a ball with two hands above the head, especially when it has crossed the side lines in a football (soccer) match.
- (transitive) To throw sideways with a jerk; to fling.
- (intransitive) To avoid due to caution, embarrassment or timidness.
- (Scotland) To hit the ball back into play from the sidelines in a shinty match.
- start suddenly, as from fright
- throw quickly
adj
- Cautious; wary; suspicious.
- (UK, US, politics, of a voter) Less likely to reveal whom they will vote for than average, chiefly in the context of the collective effect this has on polling accuracy.
- Reserved; disinclined to familiar approach.
- Easily frightened; timid.
- (informal) Short, insufficient or less than.
- wary and distrustful; disposed to avoid persons or things
- short
- lacking self-confidence
noun
- (Scotland) In shinty, the act of tossing the ball above the head and hitting it with the shaft of the caman to bring it back into play after it has been hit out of the field.
- In the Eton College wall game, a point scored by lifting the ball against the wall in the calx.
- (Scotland, soccer) A throw-in from the sidelines, using two hands above the head.
- A sudden start aside, as by a horse.
- A place for throwing.
- An act of throwing.
- a quick throw
verb
- (ambitransitive) To shrink from, or avoid something because of fear.
- (intransitive) To perform funk music.
- (transitive) To frighten; to cause to flinch.
- (euphemistic, slang) Fuck (the taboo swear word).
- (transitive) To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke.
- (intransitive) To emit an offensive smell; to stink.
- draw back, as with fear or pain
noun
- (uncountable, music) A style of music derived from 1960s soul music, with elements of rock and other styles, characterized by a prominent bass guitar, dance-friendly sound, a strong emphasis on the downbeat, and much syncopation.
- (countable) One who fears or panics; a coward.
- (countable) Mental depression.
- (countable) Foul or unpleasant smell, especially body odor.
- (uncountable) A state of fear or panic, especially cowardly.
- a state of nervous depression
- an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar
verb
- choose not to do something, as out of fear of failing
- (idiomatic) To avoid or shirk, either by failing to perform, or by performing in a grossly insufficient, negligent, or superficial manner.
- To plead guilty and ask for mercy.
- To leave a gang.
- (idiomatic, slang, transitive) To win (someone) over; to get on (someone's) good side.
- (idiomatic, slang) To abandon, let down or betray (someone).
- (idiomatic, slang) To blame; to assign blame to; to get into trouble.
noun
- a feeling of fear and revulsion
- a disease of cattle and sheep attributed to a dietary deficiency; characterized by anemia and softening of the bones and a slow stiff gait
- (figurative) A feeling or sensation of fear or horror.
- plural of creep
- (figurative) A sensation that objects are crawling on one's skin.
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adj
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- (originally) Foxtail millet or Italian millet (Setaria italica), the second-most widely grown species of millet.
- The edible grain obtained from one of the above plants.
- (uncountable) Overwhelming fear or fright, often affecting groups of people or animals; (countable) an instance of this; a fright, a scare.
- (countable, US, originally theater, colloquial) A highly amusing or entertaining performer, performance, or show; a riot, a scream.
- (countable, computing) Ellipsis of kernel panic (“on Unix-derived operating systems: an action taken by the operating system when it cannot recover from a fatal error”); (by extension) any computer system crash.
- (countable, economics, finance) A rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of such prices continuing to decline.
- (by extension) A plant of the genus Panicum, or of similar plants of other genera (especially Echinochloa and Setaria) formerly included within Panicum; panicgrass or panic grass.
- an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
- sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events
verb
- To feel panic, or overwhelming fear or fright; to freak out, to lose one's head.
- To cause (someone) to feel panic (“overwhelming fear or fright”); also, to frighten (someone) into acting hastily.
- (computing) To cause (a computer system) to crash.
- (US, colloquial) To highly amuse, entertain, or impress (an audience watching a performance or show).
- (computing) Of a computer system: to crash.
- be overcome by a sudden fear
- cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic
noun
- the object of a feeling of intense aversion; something to be avoided
- a feeling of intense dislike
- (uncountable) Natural contrariety or incompatibility between things, as a result of which they negatively affect or oppose each other; (countable) an instance of this.
- (countable) A person or thing that one has a (deep) feeling of dislike or repugnance towards; an anathema, a bête noire, a bugbear.
- (uncountable) Often followed by against, between, for, or to: a (deep) feeling of dislike or repugnance, normally towards a person and less often towards a thing, often without any conscious reasoning; aversion, distaste, hostility; (countable) an instance of this.
- (botany) The quality of being antipathetic: not easily united by grafting.
adj
noun
noun
verb
noun
- fear resulting from the awareness of danger
- a clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time
- a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event
- an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger
- A sudden attack; a disturbance.
- A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.
- Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger.
- A device intended to warn or give notice of approaching danger.
- A mechanical device for awaking people, or rousing their attention.
- Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise.
- An instance of an alarm ringing, beeping or clanging, to give a noise signal at a certain time.
verb
- warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness
- fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised
- (transitive, of a device) To produce a warning of approaching danger or necessary action; to emit a signal intended to rouse a recipient to vigilance or put them on the alert.
- (transitive) To give (someone) notice of approaching danger or necessary action; to rouse to vigilance; to put on the alert.
- (transitive) To call to arms for defense.
- (transitive) To keep in excitement; to disturb.
- (transitive) To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear.
noun
verb
noun
noun
- excessive or uncontrollable fear
- neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions
- state of violent mental agitation
- (informal, psychopathology) Synonym of conversion disorder.
- Behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotions, in a wide range from joy to panic but usually including anxiety or fear.
- (medicine, nosologically dated) A mental disorder characterized by emotional excitability etc. without an organic cause.
noun
- a feeling of fear and revulsion
- a disease of cattle and sheep attributed to a dietary deficiency; characterized by anemia and softening of the bones and a slow stiff gait
- (figurative) A feeling or sensation of fear or horror.
- plural of creep
- (figurative) A sensation that objects are crawling on one's skin.
verb
noun
- the object of a feeling of intense aversion; something to be avoided
- a feeling of intense dislike
- (uncountable) Natural contrariety or incompatibility between things, as a result of which they negatively affect or oppose each other; (countable) an instance of this.
- (countable) A person or thing that one has a (deep) feeling of dislike or repugnance towards; an anathema, a bête noire, a bugbear.
- (uncountable) Often followed by against, between, for, or to: a (deep) feeling of dislike or repugnance, normally towards a person and less often towards a thing, often without any conscious reasoning; aversion, distaste, hostility; (countable) an instance of this.
- (botany) The quality of being antipathetic: not easily united by grafting.
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adj
noun
- A confrontational game in which the participants move toward each other at high speed (usually in automobiles); the player who turns first to avoid colliding into the other is the "chicken" (that is, the loser).
- (uncountable) The game of dare.
- (countable, Polari) A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair; compare chickenhawk.
- (uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
- (countable) A domesticated subspecies of red junglefowl (Gallus gallus domesticus).
- (countable, slang, sometimes derogatory) A young or inexperienced person.
- (slang, US) A kilogram of cocaine.
- (preceded by definite article) A simple dance in which the movements of a chicken are imitated.
- (countable, slang, sometimes derogatory) A coward.
- a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy
- a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops
- the flesh of a chicken used for food
- a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl
verb
- To be apprehensive; to fear.
- To acknowledge the existence of (something); to recognize.
- (law enforcement) To seize or take (a person) by legal process; to arrest.
- To understand.
- To anticipate (something, usually unpleasant); especially, to anticipate (something) with anxiety, dread, or fear; to dread, to fear.
- To be or become aware of (something); to perceive.
- To be of opinion, believe, or think; to suppose.
- To have a conception of (something); to consider, to regard.
- To take hold of (something) with understanding; to conceive (something) in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand.
- get the meaning of something
- take into custody
- anticipate with dread or anxiety
verb
noun
- an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
- A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.
- Someone strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion.
adj
verb
noun
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To feel fear.
- be afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible or probable situation or event
- (transitive) To venerate; to feel awe towards.
- (intransitive) To worry about, to feel concern for, to be afraid for [with for].
- (transitive) To regret.
- (transitive) To be afraid of (something or someone); to consider or expect (something or someone) with alarm.
- be sorry; used to introduce an unpleasant statement
- be uneasy or apprehensive about
- be afraid or scared of; be frightened of
- regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of
adj
noun
- (countable) A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone in particular.
- (countable) Something one is afraid of; the object of one’s fear.
- (uncountable) A strong, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.
- (UK, with definite article, "the fear") A feeling of dread and anxiety when waking after drinking a lot of alcohol, wondering what one did while drunk.
- (uncountable) Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns.
- an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
- an anxious feeling
- a feeling of profound respect for someone or something
verb
adj
noun
- (slang, chiefly in the plural) Clipping of dreadlock.
- Somebody or something dreaded.
- Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
- A Rastafarian.
- (military, nautical, historical, slang) Clipping of dreadnought.
- Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
- fearful expectation or anticipation
verb
- (intransitive) To jump back in fear.
- (Scotland, transitive, intransitive) To throw a ball with two hands above the head, especially when it has crossed the side lines in a football (soccer) match.
- (transitive) To throw sideways with a jerk; to fling.
- (intransitive) To avoid due to caution, embarrassment or timidness.
- (Scotland) To hit the ball back into play from the sidelines in a shinty match.
- start suddenly, as from fright
- throw quickly
adj
- Cautious; wary; suspicious.
- (UK, US, politics, of a voter) Less likely to reveal whom they will vote for than average, chiefly in the context of the collective effect this has on polling accuracy.
- Reserved; disinclined to familiar approach.
- Easily frightened; timid.
- (informal) Short, insufficient or less than.
- wary and distrustful; disposed to avoid persons or things
- short
- lacking self-confidence
noun
- (Scotland) In shinty, the act of tossing the ball above the head and hitting it with the shaft of the caman to bring it back into play after it has been hit out of the field.
- In the Eton College wall game, a point scored by lifting the ball against the wall in the calx.
- (Scotland, soccer) A throw-in from the sidelines, using two hands above the head.
- A sudden start aside, as by a horse.
- A place for throwing.
- An act of throwing.
- a quick throw
verb
- (ambitransitive) To shrink from, or avoid something because of fear.
- (intransitive) To perform funk music.
- (transitive) To frighten; to cause to flinch.
- (euphemistic, slang) Fuck (the taboo swear word).
- (transitive) To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke.
- (intransitive) To emit an offensive smell; to stink.
- draw back, as with fear or pain
noun
- (uncountable, music) A style of music derived from 1960s soul music, with elements of rock and other styles, characterized by a prominent bass guitar, dance-friendly sound, a strong emphasis on the downbeat, and much syncopation.
- (countable) One who fears or panics; a coward.
- (countable) Mental depression.
- (countable) Foul or unpleasant smell, especially body odor.
- (uncountable) A state of fear or panic, especially cowardly.
- a state of nervous depression
- an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar
verb
- choose not to do something, as out of fear of failing
- (idiomatic) To avoid or shirk, either by failing to perform, or by performing in a grossly insufficient, negligent, or superficial manner.
- To plead guilty and ask for mercy.
- To leave a gang.
- (idiomatic, slang, transitive) To win (someone) over; to get on (someone's) good side.
- (idiomatic, slang) To abandon, let down or betray (someone).
- (idiomatic, slang) To blame; to assign blame to; to get into trouble.
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noun
verb
adj
- filled with fear or apprehension
- having feelings of aversion or unwillingness
- feeling worry or concern or insecurity
- filled with regret or concern; used often to soften an unpleasant statement
- Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear.
- Worried about, feeling concern for, fearing for (someone or something). [with for]
- Regretful, sorry; expressing a reluctance to face an unpleasant situation. [with that (+ clause) or clause; or with so or not]
adj
noun
- (originally) Foxtail millet or Italian millet (Setaria italica), the second-most widely grown species of millet.
- The edible grain obtained from one of the above plants.
- (uncountable) Overwhelming fear or fright, often affecting groups of people or animals; (countable) an instance of this; a fright, a scare.
- (countable, US, originally theater, colloquial) A highly amusing or entertaining performer, performance, or show; a riot, a scream.
- (countable, computing) Ellipsis of kernel panic (“on Unix-derived operating systems: an action taken by the operating system when it cannot recover from a fatal error”); (by extension) any computer system crash.
- (countable, economics, finance) A rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of such prices continuing to decline.
- (by extension) A plant of the genus Panicum, or of similar plants of other genera (especially Echinochloa and Setaria) formerly included within Panicum; panicgrass or panic grass.
- an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
- sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events
verb
- To feel panic, or overwhelming fear or fright; to freak out, to lose one's head.
- To cause (someone) to feel panic (“overwhelming fear or fright”); also, to frighten (someone) into acting hastily.
- (computing) To cause (a computer system) to crash.
- (US, colloquial) To highly amuse, entertain, or impress (an audience watching a performance or show).
- (computing) Of a computer system: to crash.
- be overcome by a sudden fear
- cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic