Synonyms for panic
ˈpæn ɪkpan·ic

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1. panic

   Alarm, according to its derivation all'arme, "to arms," is an arousing to meet and repel danger, and may be quite consistent with true courage. Affright and fright express sudden fear which, for the time at least, overwhelms courage. The sentinel discovers with alarm the sudden approach of the enemy; the unarmed villagers view it with affright. Apprehension, disquietude, dread, misgiving, and solicitude are in anticipation of danger; consternation, dismay, and terror are overwhelming fear, generally in the actual presence of that which is terrible, though these words also may have an anticipative force. Timidity is a quality, habit, or condition, a readiness to be affected with fear. A person of great timidity is constantly liable to needless alarm and even terror. Compare FEAR.

   Synonyms:
   affright, alarm, apprehension, consternation, dismay, disquietude, dread, fear, fright, misgiving, solicitude, terror, timidity

   Antonyms:
   assurance, calmness, confidence, repose, security

   Preposition:
   Alarm was felt in the camp, among the soldiers, at the news.

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:5.0 / 3 votes

1. panic, terror, affrightnoun

   an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety

   Synonyms:
   threat, scare, brat, affright, scourge, holy terror, terror, little terror

2. panic, scareverb

   sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events

   "panic in the stock market"; "a war scare"; "a bomb scare led them to evacuate the building"

   Synonyms:
   terror, panic attack, affright, scare

3. panicverb

   be overcome by a sudden fear

   "The students panicked when told that final exams were less than a week away"

4. panicverb

   cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic

   "The mere thought of an isolation cell panicked the prisoners"

Matched Categories

1. • Fear
   • Terrify

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. panicnoun

   Synonyms:
   fright, affright, alarm, terror, consternation, sudden fear

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. panicnoun

   Synonyms:
   consternation, terror, alarm

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:5.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "panic":

   panics, scare, alarm, scaremongering, panicked, fear, freak, terror, horror

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1. Peter van der Linden:

   When solving a "panic" you must first ask yourself what you were doing that could possibly frighten an operating system.

2. Edgar Degas:

   There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.

3. Chrystal Harwood:

   I was the last one to speak to her. She was in absolute panic, were on fire!Theres fire everywhere!

4. Deputy Health Minister Tolbert Nyenswah:

   A 17-year-old corpse was tested positive for Ebola virus. This took place in Margibi County. There is no need to panic. The corpse has been buried and our contact tracing has started work.

5. Joel Payne:

   There is some panic that is really starting to settle in with establishment Democrats with the idea of Bernie Sanders being at the top of the ticket, the chatter I hear is higher than ever on that.