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Plural of fear

regular plural

The plural of fear is fears.

Forms of fear

Singularfear /fɪə/
Pluralfears /fɪəz/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Fears in a sentence

  • Not everybody has the same fears.
  • She fears for her son’s safety.
  • They tried to reassure me but I was not able to annul my fears.From the entry annul
  • There are fears of another war between Hezbollah and Israel as border clashes continue.From the entry Hezbollah
  • All our fears have come to pass: we are doomed but have nothing left to fear.From the entry fears

Meaning of fear

  1. noun A strong, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.
  2. noun A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone in particular.
  3. noun Something one is afraid of; the object of one’s fear.

Full definition of fear

Questions about the plural of fear

What is the plural of fear?
The plural of fear is fears.
Is fear countable?
Fear is a countable and uncountable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fear (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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