sinking feeling

1. 1.

   a feeling caused by uneasiness or apprehension

   “with a sinking heart”

   “a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach”

   Synonymssinking

   Broaderanxiety

Questions about sinking feeling

What does sinking feeling mean?

sinking feeling means "a feeling caused by uneasiness or apprehension".

What is another word for sinking feeling?

Close synonyms include sinking. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sinking feeling a common word?

sinking feeling is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.