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misgive
verb as in doubt
Strong matches
verb as in misdoubt
Weak matches
- be apprehensive of
- be curious
- be dubious
- be in a quandary
- be puzzled
- be uncertain
- be undetermined
- call in question
- challenge
- demur
- disbelieve
- discredit
- dispute
- distrust
- fear
- fluctuate
- give no credence
- harbor suspicion
- have one's doubts
- have qualms
- hesitate
- imagine
- impugn
- insinuate
- mistrust
- not buy
- query
- question
- read differently
- scruple
- shilly-shally
- skepticize
- smell a rat
- surmise
- suspect
- take dim view of
- vacillate
- waver
- wonder
- wonder at
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Example Sentences
It was rather discouraging, wearisome work, and Billy's heart began to misgive him as one after another refused his request.
He searched the air like Nisus the forest in his quest of Euryalus, and his mind began to misgive him.
I misgive me he'll come in for a wetting if he doesn't tie wings to his heels.
Love is a matter of give and take—marriage, a matter of misgive and mistake.
"We may both have need for the exercise ere we depart hence, or my thoughts misgive me," replied Mortimer.
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On this page you'll find 92 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to misgive, such as: distrust, hesitate, impugn, suspect, challenge, and demur.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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