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fearmonger

Syllables: fear·mong·er/ˈfɪəmʌŋɡə//ˈfɪəɹˌmʌŋɡəɹ/

fearmonger noun: someone who spreads fear.

Noun

fearmonger (plural fearmongers)

  1. Someone who spreads fear.
    • I think the Tea Partiers, despite their contradictions, are not all wrong about Big Government. But I worry that, in time, a clever fearmonger could manipulate popular opinion into an electoral mandate.2010 December 4, Evan Thomas, “The Deepest Dangers Facing the United States [print version: Why It’s Time to Worry]”, in Newsweek, New York, N.Y.: Newsweek, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...

Verb

fearmonger (third-person singular simple present fearmongers, present participle fearmongering, simple past and past participle fearmongered)

  1. (intransitive) To spread fear.

Synonyms of fearmonger

Antonyms

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Forms of fearmonger

Noun
pluralfearmongers
alternative formfear-monger
alternative formfear monger
Verb
third-person singular presentfearmongers
present participlefearmongering
past participlefearmongered
pastfearmongered

Origin of fearmonger

From fear + monger (“dealer in a specific commodity; (by extension) person promoting something undesirable”).

Back-formation from fearmongering.

Words formed from fearmonger

Questions about fearmonger

What does fearmonger mean?
Fearmonger means someone who spreads fear.
What part of speech is fearmonger?
Fearmonger can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce fearmonger?
Fearmonger is pronounced /ˈfɪəmʌŋɡə/ (UK).
What is the plural of fearmonger?
The plural of fearmonger is fearmongers.

Words near fearmonger in the dictionary

  1. fearlessness
  2. fearlessnesses
  3. fearlike
  4. fearmong
  5. fearmonged
  6. fearmonger
  7. fearmongered
  8. fearmongerer
  9. fearmongerers
  10. fearmongering
  11. fearmongerings

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