Pronunciation
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- IPA(key): /ˈfɹaɪtn̩d/, /ˈfɹaɪʔn̩d/
- Hyphenation: frigh‧tened
Adjective
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frightened (comparative more frightened, superlative most frightened)
- 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: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, […].
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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
- Turkish: ürkmüş
- Winnebago: nąąǧirexjį
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frightened
- simple past and past participle of frighten
