Noun

• S: (n) discouragement, disheartenment, dismay (the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles)
• S: (n) alarm, dismay, consternation (fear resulting from the awareness of danger)
• attribute
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) fear, fearfulness, fright (an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight))
• S: (n) alarm, dismay, consternation (fear resulting from the awareness of danger)
• S: (n) creeps (a feeling of fear and revulsion) "he gives me the creeps"
• S: (n) frisson, shiver, chill, quiver, shudder, thrill, tingle (an almost pleasurable sensation of fright) "a frisson of surprise shot through him"
• S: (n) horror (intense and profound fear)
• S: (n) hysteria (excessive or uncontrollable fear)
• S: (n) panic, terror, affright (an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety)
• S: (n) scare, panic attack (a sudden attack of fear)
• S: (n) stage fright (fear that affects a person about to face an audience)
• S: (n) apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread (fearful expectation or anticipation) "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"
• S: (n) timidity, timidness, timorousness (fear of the unknown or unfamiliar or fear of making decisions)
• S: (n) intimidation (the feeling of being intimidated; being made to feel afraid or timid)
• derivationally related form

Verb

• S: (v) depress, deject, cast down, get down, dismay, dispirit, demoralize, demoralise (lower someone's spirits; make downhearted) "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her"
• S: (v) dismay, alarm, appal, appall, horrify (fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised) "I was horrified at the thought of being late for my interview"; "The news of the executions horrified us"