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frightened::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | scared |
the frightened child cowered in the corner.
frightened::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | panic-stricken, panic-struck, panicked, panicky, terrified |
Examples of frightened
frightened
After the mishap, she hurried the frightened but uninjured child to her parents.
From the courier-journal.com
I am also frightened of darkness and of ghosts lurking in every nook and cranny.
From the bbc.co.uk
Markets are frightened by today's borrowing, with its flood of government bonds.
From the theatlantic.com
Some of that drop is the result of frightened residents staying off the streets.
From the chron.com
The teenage driver was frightened but fine, and, fortunately, no one was harmed.
From the nytimes.com
There's a possibility of rabies, and also being attacked by a frightened animal.
From the nytimes.com
He said no and apparently so frightened Anita that she fled in fear of her life.
From the economist.com
Or more precisely, I persuaded myself that I was frightened of getting on stage.
From the independent.co.uk
The Christians of the twenty-first century appear angry, insular and frightened.
From the economist.com
- Made afraid; "the frightened child cowered in the corner"; "too shocked and scared to move"
- Panicky: thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation; "became panicky as the snow deepened"; "felt panicked before each exam"; "trying to keep back the panic-stricken crowd"; "the terrified horse bolted"
- (frighten) cause fear in; "The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me"; "Ghosts could never affright her"
- (frighten) drive out by frightening
- (frightening) awful: causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; ...
- (frightening) terrorization: the act of inspiring with fear
- The Frightened was a radio program broadcast in the late 1950s. During 1956 Lyle Kenyon Engel put together a package of two radio shows and four magazines. ...
- Afraid; suffering from fear
- (frighten) To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify
