frightened

frightened

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɹaɪtn̩d/, /ˈfɹaɪʔn̩d/

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• Hyphenation: frigh‧tened

Adjective

frightened (comparative more frightened, superlative most frightened)

1. Afraid; suffering from fear.

   She looked very much frightened of the storm.

   • 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter I, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, OCLC 491297620:

     He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. […] But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again her partner was haled off with a frightened look to the royal circle, […].

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:afraid

Derived terms

• frightened rabbit

Translations

afraid, suffering from fear

Arabic: فزعان‎ Catalan: atemorit (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 驚駭／惊骇 (zh) (jīnghài), 驚惶／惊惶 (zh) (jīnghuáng) Czech: vyděšený (cs), vystrašený Danish: bange (da) Dutch: lafhartig (nl), bangelijk (nl) Finnish: peloissaan (fi), kauhuissaan (fi) French: effrayé (fr), apeuré (fr) Georgian: შეშინებული (šešinebuli) German: erschrocken (de), furchtsam (de), verängstigt (de) Gothic: 𐌿𐍃𐍆𐌹𐌻𐌼𐌰 (usfilma) Greek: Ancient: ἔμφοβος (émphobos), ταρβαλέος (tarbaléos) Hungarian: ijedt (hu) Icelandic: hræddur (is) Indonesian: kaget (id) Italian: allarmato (it), spaurito (it) Japanese: 怖い (ja) (こわい, kowai) Latin: territus, metuens, perterritus, exterritus, proterritus, formīdulōsus, timefactus, excītus, pavefactus, gelātus, pallidus Latvian: bail, bailīgs Luxembourgish: baang Norman: êffrité Old English: ācol Portuguese: amedrontado (pt), assustado (pt), assombrado (pt) Romanian: temător (ro) m, speriat (ro) m Russian: испу́ганный (ru) (ispúgannyj) Scots: feart, fleyed, frichtent, scart, scarred Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: уплашен m Latin: uplašen (sh) m Sicilian: scantatu (scn) Spanish: atemorizado (es) m Winnebago: nąąǧirexjį

Verb

frightened

1. simple past tense and past participle of frighten