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:

     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