adj
Meaning 1
Afraid; suffering from fear.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- She looked very much frightened of the storm.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
frightened
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈfɹaɪtn̩d/
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/ˈfɹaɪʔn̩d/
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verb
Meaning 2
simple past and past participle of frighten
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, participle, past
Examples
- The elephant was frightened by mice.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
made afraid
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the frightened child cowered in the corner
- too shocked and scared to move
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: scared
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- became panicky as the snow deepened
- felt panicked before each exam
- trying to keep back the panic-stricken crowd
- the terrified horse bolted
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: panicky, panicked, panic-stricken, panic-struck, terrified
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
65 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: فزعان — afraid, suffering from fear
- Catalan: atemorit — afraid, suffering from fear
- Chinese Mandarin: 驚駭 /惊骇 (jīnghài) — afraid, suffering from fear
- Chinese Mandarin: 驚惶 /惊惶 (jīnghuáng) — afraid, suffering from fear
- Czech: vyděšený — afraid, suffering from fear
- Czech: vystrašený — afraid, suffering from fear
- Danish: bange — afraid, suffering from fear
- Dutch: lafhartig — afraid, suffering from fear
- Dutch: bangelijk — afraid, suffering from fear
- Esperanto: tima — afraid, suffering from fear
- Finnish: peloissaan — afraid, suffering from fear
- Finnish: kauhuissaan — afraid, suffering from fear
- French: effrayé — afraid, suffering from fear
- French: apeuré — afraid, suffering from fear
- Georgian: შეშინებული (šešinebuli) — afraid, suffering from fear
- German: erschrocken — afraid, suffering from fear
- German: furchtsam — afraid, suffering from fear
- German: verängstigt — afraid, suffering from fear
- Gothic: 𐌿𐍃𐍆𐌹𐌻𐌼𐌰 (usfilma) — afraid, suffering from fear
- Ancient Greek: ἔμφοβος (émphobos) — afraid, suffering from fear
- Ancient Greek: ταρβαλέος (tarbaléos) — afraid, suffering from fear
- Hungarian: ijedt — afraid, suffering from fear
- Icelandic: hræddur — afraid, suffering from fear
- Indonesian: kaget — afraid, suffering from fear
- Italian: allarmato — afraid, suffering from fear
- Italian: spaurito — afraid, suffering from fear
- Japanese: 怖い (kowai) — afraid, suffering from fear
- Kashmiri: کھوٗژمُت (khūċmut) — afraid, suffering from fear
- Kashmiri: خوفہٕ ہۆت (khōfụ hot) — afraid, suffering from fear
- Latin: territus — afraid, suffering from fear
- Latin: metuens — afraid, suffering from fear
- Latin: perterritus — afraid, suffering from fear
- Latin: exterritus — afraid, suffering from fear
- Latin: proterritus — afraid, suffering from fear
- Latin: formīdulōsus — afraid, suffering from fear
- Latin: timefactus — afraid, suffering from fear
- Latin: excītus — afraid, suffering from fear
- Latin: pavefactus — afraid, suffering from fear
- Latin: gelātus — afraid, suffering from fear
- Latin: pallidus — afraid, suffering from fear
- Latvian: bail — afraid, suffering from fear
- Latvian: bailīgs — afraid, suffering from fear
- Luxembourgish: baang — afraid, suffering from fear
- Norman: êffrité — afraid, suffering from fear
- Old English: ācol — afraid, suffering from fear
- Portuguese: amedrontado — afraid, suffering from fear
- Portuguese: assustado — afraid, suffering from fear
- Portuguese: assombrado — afraid, suffering from fear
- Romanian: temător — afraid, suffering from fear
- Romanian: speriat — afraid, suffering from fear
- Russian: испу́ганный (ispúgannyj) — afraid, suffering from fear
- Scots: feart — afraid, suffering from fear
- Scots: fleyed — afraid, suffering from fear
- Scots: frichtent — afraid, suffering from fear
- Scots: scart — afraid, suffering from fear
- Scots: scarred — afraid, suffering from fear
- Serbo-Croatian: уплашен — afraid, suffering from fear
- Serbo-Croatian: uplašen — afraid, suffering from fear
- Sicilian: scantatu — afraid, suffering from fear
- Spanish: atemorizado — afraid, suffering from fear
- Turkish: ürkmüş — afraid, suffering from fear
- Ukrainian: зля́каний (zljákanyj) — afraid, suffering from fear
- Ukrainian: переля́каний (pereljákanyj) — afraid, suffering from fear
- Winnebago: nąąǧirexjį — afraid, suffering from fear
- Woiwurrung: pampa — afraid, suffering from fear
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