Thesaurus
:
afraid
T
hesaurus
afraid
English
Adjective
Sense: impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear; apprehensive
Synonyms
afeared
alarmed
anxious
apprehensive
chicken
fearful
frightened
frit
horrified
mortified
panicked
scared
terrified
timorous
(
archaic
)
worried
Antonyms
brave
[
⇒ thesaurus
]
calm
[
⇒ thesaurus
]
unafraid
[
⇒ thesaurus
]
Hyponyms
petrified
scared half to death
scared spitless
scared shitless
scared stiff
scared to death
shit scared
spooked
Hypernyms
emotional
emotionful
See also
Thesaurus:fear
Thesaurus:frighten
Thesaurus:coward
Thesaurus:nervous
Further reading
“
860. fear
” in
Roget's Thesaurus
, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
“
afraid
” in
Moby Thesaurus II
, Grady Ward, 1996.