fearmonger

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈfɪəmʌŋɡə/    美 /ˈfɪəɹˌmʌŋɡəɹ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
动词 v.
  1. To spread fear. intransitive

词形变化

fearmongers plural fear-monger alternative fear monger alternative fearmongers present,singular,third-person fearmongering participle,present fearmongered participle,past fearmongered past fear-monger alternative fear monger alternative

词汇关系

反义词
coward hero optimist

词源

词源 1
From fear + monger (“dealer in a specific commodity; (by extension) person promoting something undesirable”).
词源 2
Back-formation from fearmongering.
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