Synonyms for frightened
fright·ened

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. frightened

   Synonyms:
   afraid, cowardly, cringing, faint-hearted, fearful, pusillanimous, shrinking, timid, timorous

   Antonyms:
   adventurous, bold, brave, chivalric, chivalrous, courageous, daring, dauntless, doughty, fearless, gallant, heroic, intrepid, undaunted, undismayed, valiant, venturesome

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. frightened, scaredadjective

   made afraid

   "the frightened child cowered in the corner"; "too shocked and scared to move"

   Synonyms:
   panicked, panic-stricken, panicky, panic-struck, scared, terrified

   Antonyms:
   fearless, unafraid(p)

2. panicky, panicked, panic-stricken, panic-struck, terrified, frightenedadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   panic-stricken, panicky, panic-struck, panicked, scared, terrified

   Antonyms:
   fearless, unafraid(p)

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1. List of paraphrases for "frightened":

   scared, afraid, fear, terrified, scary, worried, startled, bang, spooked

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1. Essence Securities analyst Jiang Ming:

   STO Express was the first ... Now other companies are frightened and are accelerating their stock market listings.

2. Lisa Gallagher:

   I have never been so frightened in my life.

3. Ellen Page:

   I think we’d be lying if we said we didn’t feel frightened, it’s about capturing that person — you’re not quite putting a face to it ’cause he’s wearing a mask — really saying, ‘hey, this exists.’ You’re not thinking about yourself, you’re thinking about the vulnerable people who are walking the streets of Rio and might not know this man is walking right by them or he might just run them over in his car.

4. Robert Abrams:

   You've got a group of people with dementia who don't really grasp the nature and purpose of their surroundings, or the circumstances that compelled them to be there, consequently they're alone and at sea, and feel frightened and even abandoned by family.

5. Paul Offit:

   This makes me worry that people will be unnecessarily frightened about these vaccines.