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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
misgiving \mis*giv"ing\, noun Evil premonition; doubt; distrust; a feeling of apprehension; -- used commonly in the plural. ''Suspicious and misgivings.'' --South.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Misgive \Mis*give"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. {Misgave}; p. p. {Misgiven}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Misgiving}.]
1. To give or grant amiss. [Obs.] --Laud.
2. Specifically: To give doubt and apprehension to, instead of confidence and courage; to impart fear to; to make irresolute; -- usually said of the mind or heart, and followed by the objective personal pronoun.
So doth my heart misgive me in these conflicts What may befall him, to his harm and ours. --Shak.
Such whose consciences misgave them, how ill they had deserved. --Milton.
3. To suspect; to dread. [Obs.] --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
misgiving
noun
1: uneasiness about the fitness of an action [syn: {scruple}, {qualm}]
2: painful expectation [syn: {apprehension}]
3: doubt about someone's honesty [syn: {mistrust}, {distrust}, {suspicion}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
107 Moby Thesaurus words for "misgiving": Pyrrhonism, agitated, agitation, all-overish, all-overs, angst, anxiety, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat, anxioused up, anxiousness, apprehension, apprehensive, apprehensiveness, boding, bothered, cankerworm of care, care, concern, concerned, concernment, diffidence, discomfort, disquiet, disquieted, disquietude, distress, distrust, distrustfulness, disturbance, disturbed, doubt, doubtfulness, dread, dubiety, dubiousness, fear, fearful, foreboding, forebodingness, funny feeling, half-belief, hesitation, in a pucker, in a stew, inquietude, leeriness, malaise, misdoubt, mistrust, mistrustfulness, nervous, nervous strain, nervous tension, nervousness, on tenterhooks, overanxiety, overanxious, overapprehensive, perturbation, perturbed, pins and needles, premonition, prenotion, presage, presentiment, pucker, qualm, qualmish, qualmishness, qualmy, question, scruple, scrupulousness, self-doubt, shadow of doubt, skepticalness, skepticism, solicitous, solicitude, stew, strain, strained, suspense, suspenseful, suspicion, suspiciousness, tense, tension, total skepticism, trouble, troubled, uncertainty, unease, uneasiness, uneasy, unquietness, upset, vexation, wariness, worry, zeal, zealous
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