What is another word for afraid?
473 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ ɐfɹˈe͡ɪd], [ ɐfɹˈeɪd], [ ɐ_f_ɹ_ˈeɪ_d]Table of Contents
Similar words for afraid:- aghast (adjective)
- alarmed (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- anxious (adjective)
- apprehensive (adjective)
- averse (adjective)
- backward (adjective)
- cowardly (adjective)
- disinclined (adjective)
- fainthearted (adjective)
- fearful (adjective)
- frightened (adjective)
- hesitant (adjective)
- horrified (adjective)
- indisposed (adjective)
- insecure (adjective)
- lily-livered (adjective)
- nervous (adjective)
- opposing (adjective)
- panic-stricken (adjective)
- petrified (adjective)
- recreant (adjective)
- reluctant (adjective)
- reluctant, regretful (adjective)
- scared (adjective)
- shy (adjective)
- startled (adjective)
- timid (adjective)
- troubled (adjective)
- uneasy (adjective)
- unmanly (adjective)
- unwilling (adjective)
- vacillant (adjective)
- vacillatory (adjective)
- weak (adjective)
- worried (adjective)
- acrophobic (noun)
- afeard (noun)
- afeared (noun)
- afraid (noun)
- other synonyms
- abject
- nervous
- shy
Synonyms for Afraid:
adj.
•aghast (adjective)- more astounded,
- most horrorstruck,
- most agape,
- more horror-struck,
- most astounded,
- over whelmed,
- most astonished,
- more dismayed,
- most horror-struck,
- more horror struck,
- over-whelmed,
- most awestruck,
- dis-mayed,
- horrorstruck,
- more appalled,
- more astonished,
- more agape,
- most horror struck,
- horror struck,
- most appalled,
- more awestruck,
- most dismayed,
- more amazed,
- most amazed,
- more horrorstruck,
- dis mayed.
- taut,
- un-quiet,
- more careful,
- dis-tressed,
- up tight,
- most hyper,
- more choked,
- dis quieted,
- most choked,
- more butterflies,
- un quiet,
- most bugged,
- most dreading,
- un-glued,
- more hacked,
- un-quieter,
- fidgety,
- most disquieted,
- un glued,
- dis tressed,
- worried sick,
- over wrought,
- more bugged,
- sweating bullets,
- most butterflies,
- un quietest,
- more dreading,
- wreckest,
- more clutched,
- up-tight,
- in tizzy,
- most hacked,
- most clutched,
- most unglued,
- in state,
- more disquieted,
- more unglued,
- more spooked,
- most spooked,
- un quieter,
- un-quietest,
- more hyper,
- shot pieces,
- dis-quieted.
- in a sweat,
- have hunch,
- have cold feet,
- in sweat,
- most scaredy cat,
- more foreboding,
- more jellyfish,
- more scaredy cat,
- fore-boding,
- fore boding,
- in dither,
- mis-trustful,
- most jellyfish,
- most scaredycat,
- weakest,
- more scaredycat,
- more scaredy-cat,
- feel bones,
- mis trustful,
- in cold sweat,
- scaredycat,
- most scaredy-cat,
- mistrustful,
- most foreboding.
- more ill-disposed,
- un-friendlier,
- most illdisposed,
- most ill disposed,
- un friendlier,
- un-friendliest,
- un favorable,
- more uneager,
- un-favorable,
- most disliking,
- un-friendly,
- un friendliest,
- anti-pathetic,
- dis-liking,
- more disliking,
- more ill disposed,
- ill disposed,
- un-eager,
- dis liking,
- un eager,
- more illdisposed,
- un friendly,
- illdisposed,
- most uneager,
- most ill-disposed,
- anti pathetic.
- recreant,
- shrinking,
- pigeonhearted,
- lacking courage,
- yellow-bellied,
- weak-kneed,
- softer,
- Cowhearted,
- having the willies,
- Chicken-hearted,
- no guts,
- timorous,
- lily-livered.
- more shying,
- not the mood,
- un sympathetic,
- most sticking,
- more protesting,
- dis-inclined,
- not mood,
- pro testing,
- most objecting,
- un-sympathetic,
- most protesting,
- most shying,
- not in mood,
- slowest,
- most balking,
- pro-testing,
- more objecting,
- more sticking,
- more balking,
- dis inclined.
- more unassertive,
- wimpiest,
- co wed,
- more cowed,
- co-wed,
- wimpier,
- most unassertive,
- un-assertive,
- un assertive,
- having cold feet,
- most cowed.
- spooked,
- suspicious,
- abashed,
- disheartened,
- distressed,
- discouraged,
- trembling,
- upset,
- stunned,
- perplexed,
- pusillanimous,
- rabbity,
- aflutter,
- startled,
- phobic,
- disturbed,
- in awe,
- aroused,
- scared stiff,
- daunted,
- scared to death,
- run scared,
- rattled,
- faint-hearted,
- goose-bumpy,
- blanched,
- cowardly,
- frozen,
- perturbed.
- paralyzed,
- in a panic,
- Harrowed,
- chicken-livered,
- pushing the panic button,
- jittery,
- having kittens,
- agitated.
- half hearted,
- most faltering,
- more faltering,
- in decisive,
- un predictable,
- doubting,
- more dawdling,
- de-laying,
- in-decisive,
- un sure,
- Half-hearted,
- de laying,
- un-sure,
- most dawdling,
- un-predictable.
- more uninclined,
- un-caring,
- most uninclined,
- un caring,
- un-inclined,
- in-disposed,
- un inclined,
- in disposed.
- more questioning,
- in securer,
- Unpoised,
- un-assured,
- most unassured,
- more unconfident,
- un-confident,
- un confident,
- most delphic,
- up air,
- in securest,
- un assured,
- most unconfident,
- most questioning,
- more unassured,
- more unpoised,
- touch go,
- most unpoised,
- in secure,
- in-securer,
- up in air,
- un poised,
- more delphic,
- in-securest,
- un-poised,
- up the air,
- in-secure.
- more ruffled,
- more unrestful,
- highstrung,
- most ruffled,
- most flustered,
- unstrung,
- un restful,
- un strung,
- most unrestful,
- un-restful,
- up-set,
- ex citable,
- un-strung,
- ex-citable,
- more flustered,
- more nervous,
- high strung.
- laggard,
- dis heartened,
- most demurring,
- most grudging,
- more disheartened,
- in voluntary,
- in-voluntary,
- more laggard,
- most disheartened,
- more grudging,
- most laggard,
- dis-heartened,
- more demurring.
- more uneffusive,
- more introvert,
- un-social,
- un social,
- most introvert,
- more unsocial,
- most unsocial,
- un-effusive,
- introvert,
- most uneffusive,
- un-responsive,
- dis-trustful,
- dis trustful,
- un responsive,
- self effacing,
- selfeffacing,
- recessive,
- un effusive.
- more badgered,
- more browbeaten,
- most daunted,
- most trembling,
- most badgered,
- more daunted,
- more milquetoast,
- most bullied,
- most milquetoast,
- most browbeaten,
- sub missive,
- more bullied,
- more trembling.
- more beset,
- dis pleased,
- troubled,
- be-set,
- more tortured,
- most pestered,
- most irked,
- miffed,
- more exacerbated,
- more riled,
- most harrowed,
- most riled,
- more inconvenienced,
- most exacerbated,
- more harrowed,
- more chagrined,
- ex-acerbated,
- dis-concerted,
- most inconvenienced,
- most mortified,
- more plagued,
- most chagrined,
- dis concerted,
- more aggravated,
- more irked,
- most plagued,
- more pestered,
- most beset,
- ex acerbated,
- most aggravated,
- dis-pleased,
- more mortified,
- most tortured.
- un stable,
- un easier,
- harassed,
- more vexed,
- most anguished,
- more tormented,
- un easiest,
- un easy,
- pre-carious,
- most tormented,
- un-stable,
- un-stablest,
- un-easy,
- pre carious,
- un-settled,
- most harassed,
- un-easier,
- ill ease,
- un settled,
- more palpitant,
- un stablest,
- un-easiest,
- on qui vive,
- un stabler,
- un-stabler,
- more anguished,
- more harassed,
- most palpitant,
- most vexed.
n.
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- fear.
- disinclined,
- aquaphobic,
- alarmed,
- algophobic,
- panic-struck,
- terror-struck,
- terrified,
- agoraphobic,
- hangdog,
- numb,
- shitless,
- unnerved,
- horror-stricken,
- scared,
- horrified,
- dismayed,
- concerned,
- browbeaten,
- shocked,
- terror-stricken,
- mysophobic,
- panicky,
- appalled,
- cowed,
- hunted,
- triskaidekaphobic,
- intimidated,
- xenophobic,
- claustrophobic,
- panicked,
- bullied,
- hydrophobic,
- white-lipped.
Other synonyms:
•abject •nervous •shy
Paraphrases for Afraid:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
fearful, scared, apprehensive.
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Proper noun, singular
scared.
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Noun, singular or mass
scared.
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Adverb
scared.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
affraid, terrified, frightening, petrified, nervous, wary, shy, reluctant, bang, timid, hesitant.
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Proper noun, singular
Worries.
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Adverb
unfortunately.
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Verb, non-3rd person singular present
AM.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
frightened, worried, concerned, anxious.
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Noun, singular or mass
fright.
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Verb, past tense
scared.
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Verb, 3rd person singular present
scares.
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Verb, base form
frighten.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Afraid:
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adj.
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all
unafraid.
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fearful
cool, courageous, valiant, fearless, eager, bold, heroic, intrepid, happy, undaunted, undismayed, brave, venturesome, calm, composed, confident, unworried.
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Other antonyms:
gallant, assured, adventuresome, stouthearted, plucky, hardy, sure, stalwart, lionhearted, unperturbed, collected, spunky, resolute, manful, gutsy, inclined, spirited, sanguine, adventurous, daring, valorous, stout, dauntless, dashing, unconcerned, venturous, daredevil.
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all
Homophones for Afraid:
- aboveboard, abrade, avert, afeard, abroad, aberrate, afford, apart, afeared, apartheid, aphrodite, abfarad, Afro hairdo, aboard, aborad, abort, avaritia.
