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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈfɪəmʌŋɡə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈfɪəɹˌmʌŋɡəɹ/
• ハイフネーション: fear‧mong‧er

語源 1

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

名詞

fearmonger (plural fearmongers)

1. Someone who spreads fear.

   Synonyms: alarmist, fearmongerer, panicmonger, scaremonger; see also Thesaurus:fearmonger

   Coordinate term: hatemonger

   • 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 original on 13 July 2024:

     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.

別の表記

• fear-monger, fear monger

関連する語

• fearmongering

語源 2

Back-formation from fearmongering.

動詞

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

1. (intransitive) To spread fear.

別の表記

• fear-monger, fear monger

派生語

• fearmongerer

Further reading

• fearmongering on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “fearmonger, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “fearmonger, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

アナグラム

• form genera

動詞

fear monger (third-person singular simple present fear mongers, present participle fear mongering, simple past and past participle fear mongered)

1. Alternative form of fearmonger

参考

• scaremonger

アナグラム

• form genera