Fearful feeling
The crossword clue "Fearful feeling" is answered by DREAD, a 5-letter entry. Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
DREAD
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DREAD answer page.
Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- ANXIETY (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for DREAD
Every other clue in this collection answered by DREAD, most used first.
- Fear - used 32 times, most recently in 2018
- Great fear - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
- Intense fear - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
- Apprehension - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
- Terror - used 18 times, most recently in 2023
- Trepidation - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Fear greatly - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
- Be fearful of - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- Hate the thought of - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Anticipate with fear - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- More than fear - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Not look forward to - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Abject fear - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Extreme fear - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Feeling of foreboding - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Angst - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- Live in fear of - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- Not look forward to at all - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Really not look forward to - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Uneasy feeling - ANGST, used 114 times
- Have a feeling - SENSE, used 100 times
- Feeling of dread - ANGST, used 51 times
- Listless feeling - ENNUI, used 46 times
- Ho-hum feeling - ENNUI, used 31 times
- Bored feeling - ENNUI, used 29 times
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