Fear

Morpheme

Fear

Type

free base

Denotation

calamity, sudden danger, peril, sudden attack, terrible sight

Etymology

Middle English feer, fere, fer; Old English fǣr

Evidence

fear, fearable, feared, fearer, fearfest, fearful, fearfully, fearing, fearless, fearlessness, fearlike, fearmonger, fearnaught, fears, fearscape, fearsome, fearsomely, fearsomeness, overfear