Synonyms for Frighten:

• adj.

  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • baneful.

• n.

  •
  • urge on,
  • entice,
  • inveigle,
  • prod,
  • repel,
  • prevail on,
  • persuade,
  • stampede,
  • stave off,
  • motivate,
  • fascinate,
  • spur,
  • convince,
  • dissuade.
  •
  • bother,
  • unsettle,
  • fear,
  • concern,
  • tear apart,
  • scare the daylights out of,
  • distress,
  • worry,
  • scarify.
  •affright (noun)
  • affright.
  •fright (noun)
  • fright.
  •frighten (noun)
  • scare.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • action,
  • activity.

• v.

  •alarm (verb)
  • surprise,
  • signal,
  • shock,
  • startle,
  • alert.
  •appall/appal (verb)
  • out-rage,
  • out rages,
  • dis concerts,
  • dis heartens,
  • dis-concert,
  • out rage,
  • out-rages,
  • dis-heartens,
  • dis heartened,
  • dis concerting,
  • dis-hearten,
  • dis-heartened,
  • dis-concerting,
  • out-raging,
  • gotten to,
  • out raged,
  • grossing out,
  • dis-heartening,
  • out-raged,
  • dis-concerted,
  • out raging,
  • dis concerted,
  • dis heartening,
  • dis-concerts,
  • gat to,
  • dis hearten,
  • dis concert,
  • grosses out.
  •awe (verb)
  • over-awes,
  • showboated,
  • over awed,
  • grand-stands,
  • blowing away,
  • hotdogged,
  • over-awe,
  • blows away,
  • grand stands,
  • over-awed,
  • grand standing,
  • over awe,
  • knocks socks off,
  • knocked socks off,
  • over awes,
  • over awing,
  • knocking socks off,
  • grand-standing,
  • grand stand,
  • over-awing.
  •browbeat (verb)
  • Over-bearing,
  • puts through the wringer,
  • lords over,
  • over-borne,
  • over bearing,
  • over borne,
  • putting chill on,
  • lorded it over,
  • puts chill on,
  • putting heat on,
  • lorded over,
  • lords it over,
  • lording over,
  • over-bears,
  • over born,
  • overborn,
  • puts through wringer,
  • leaned on,
  • overbore,
  • despotizes,
  • lord over,
  • puts heat on,
  • putting through wringer,
  • puts the chill on,
  • over-bore,
  • putting the chill on,
  • over-born,
  • over bears,
  • leans on,
  • leant on,
  • putting through the wringer,
  • despotized,
  • despotizing,
  • over bore,
  • lording it over,
  • over bear.
  •cow (verb)
  • turn on heat,
  • turn heat,
  • co-wing,
  • sub due,
  • turns the heat,
  • co wing,
  • sub dues,
  • dis-comfits,
  • sub-due,
  • walking heavy,
  • turned on heat,
  • pushes around,
  • strongarm,
  • turned the heat,
  • turning on the heat,
  • co wed,
  • walked heavy,
  • turning on heat,
  • walks heavy,
  • turning the heat,
  • buffaloing,
  • turns on heat,
  • turns on the heat,
  • turn the heat,
  • co-wed,
  • turning heat,
  • dis comfits,
  • dis comfit,
  • pushed around,
  • turns heat,
  • turned on the heat,
  • turned heat,
  • dis-comfit,
  • sub-dues.
  •deter (verb)
  • re-strains,
  • acts like wet blanket,
  • de barred,
  • acted like a wet blanket,
  • re strain,
  • forfended,
  • threw cold water on,
  • disadvising,
  • dis-advising,
  • de-barred,
  • fore-stalled,
  • de-bar,
  • acts like a wet blanket,
  • talks out of,
  • putting a damper on,
  • throws cold water on,
  • re strains,
  • dis-advises,
  • dis advising,
  • fore-stalling,
  • pre vents,
  • disadvises,
  • fore-stall,
  • fore-stalls,
  • disadvised,
  • pre-venting,
  • dis advises,
  • re strained,
  • pre-vented,
  • de-bars,
  • dis-advise,
  • puts a damper on,
  • pre venting,
  • acting like a wet blanket,
  • dis-advised,
  • forfends,
  • fore stall,
  • re-strained,
  • acting like wet blanket,
  • fore stalled,
  • de bars,
  • acted like wet blanket,
  • re straining,
  • de barring,
  • throwing cold water on,
  • re-straining,
  • act like wet blanket,
  • de-barring,
  • talked out of,
  • pre-vent,
  • pre vent,
  • puts damper on,
  • fore stalling,
  • putting damper on,
  • dis advise,
  • pre-vents,
  • dis advised,
  • forfending,
  • fore stalls,
  • de bar,
  • re-strain.
  •discourage (verb)
  • de-pressing,
  • de press,
  • in disposing,
  • break one heart,
  • dis-inclined,
  • de moralized,
  • break heart,
  • dis-inclines,
  • with held,
  • with-holds,
  • de-pressed,
  • dis courage,
  • breaks ones heart,
  • dis-favoring,
  • beats down,
  • turns aside,
  • with-hold,
  • dis-favors,
  • brake ones heart,
  • de-moralized,
  • de-moralize,
  • in disposed,
  • de pressed,
  • inter fere,
  • with holds,
  • dis-courages,
  • in disposes,
  • brake heart,
  • de presses,
  • re-pressing,
  • dis courages,
  • dis countenancing,
  • re pressing,
  • dis incline,
  • inter-feres,
  • in-disposed,
  • dis-incline,
  • dis-countenance,
  • dis-countenancing,
  • dis favored,
  • dis countenanced,
  • dis-countenances,
  • inter-fere,
  • break ones heart,
  • in dispose,
  • re press,
  • de pressing,
  • de moralizing,
  • inter feres,
  • de moralizes,
  • broke one heart,
  • dis-favor,
  • breaking ones heart,
  • with hold,
  • re pressed,
  • breaks heart,
  • dis inclines,
  • de-moralizing,
  • indisposes,
  • breaks one's heart,
  • in-disposes,
  • re-presses,
  • dis inclined,
  • de-presses,
  • dis-favored,
  • dis countenances,
  • dis favor,
  • broke ones heart,
  • dis-courage,
  • breaking one heart,
  • in-dispose,
  • de-press,
  • breaks one heart,
  • brake one's heart,
  • with holding,
  • beating down,
  • holds off,
  • casts down,
  • breaking heart,
  • brake one heart,
  • dis-inclining,
  • re presses,
  • dis favoring,
  • dis favors,
  • de-moralizes,
  • de moralize,
  • dis countenance,
  • dis inclining,
  • dis-countenanced,
  • with-held,
  • broke one's heart,
  • broke heart,
  • in-disposing,
  • breaking one's heart.
  •dismay (verb)
  • be-wilders,
  • dis quiet,
  • dis composes,
  • dis maying,
  • un-hinging,
  • dis compose,
  • dis-illusions,
  • dis-quiets,
  • dis-composes,
  • dis-may,
  • un hinged,
  • dis-quieted,
  • be-wilder,
  • throw in to tizzy,
  • dis-illusioned,
  • dis may,
  • dis quiets,
  • dis quieted,
  • threw into a tizzy,
  • dis-mayed,
  • up-sets,
  • dis-composing,
  • mucks up,
  • dis composed,
  • un hinges,
  • throws into tizzy,
  • up setting,
  • throws in to tizzy,
  • dis-quieting,
  • dis-maying,
  • dis quieting,
  • dis-quiet,
  • throws into a tizzy,
  • dis illusion,
  • throw in to a tizzy,
  • up sets,
  • throwing into a tizzy,
  • threw into tizzy,
  • up-setting,
  • throwing in to tizzy,
  • threw in to a tizzy,
  • be wilder,
  • un hinge,
  • dis-illusion,
  • dis-composed,
  • un hinging,
  • be-wildering,
  • throwing into tizzy,
  • be-wildered,
  • be wildering,
  • dis-compose,
  • threw in to tizzy,
  • dis illusions,
  • throwing in to a tizzy,
  • snafuing,
  • be wildered,
  • un-hinged,
  • be wilders,
  • dis illusioned,
  • throws in to a tizzy,
  • dis-mays,
  • mucking up,
  • un-hinge,
  • dis mays,
  • dis composing,
  • dis mayed,
  • un-hinges,
  • up-set.
  •disturb (verb)
  • un-settled,
  • ex citing,
  • dis tract,
  • made uneasy,
  • ex cites,
  • un settling,
  • un-settling,
  • un-settle,
  • un settled,
  • un settles,
  • dis-tracts,
  • ex-cite,
  • burns up,
  • ex cited,
  • dis tracts,
  • ex cite,
  • ex-cites,
  • burnt up,
  • dis-tract,
  • making uneasy,
  • un settle,
  • makes uneasy,
  • ex-cited.
  •frighten (verb)
  • set on edge,
  • harrow,
  • agitate,
  • petrify.
  •galvanize (verb)
  • Commoved,
  • innervated,
  • innervating,
  • commoves,
  • in nervate,
  • in-nervate,
  • innervates.
  •haunt (verb)
  • be devilling,
  • be-devilling,
  • be setting,
  • be-deviling,
  • weighed on,
  • be devils,
  • in habit,
  • over running,
  • be-sieged,
  • in habited,
  • re-turns,
  • in-habits,
  • be deviled,
  • re turning,
  • being ever present,
  • be-devil,
  • be-sets,
  • be-devils,
  • re curred,
  • in habiting,
  • in-habited,
  • be-sieges,
  • re appear,
  • be sets,
  • staid with,
  • re-turned,
  • weighs on,
  • re-curred,
  • is ever present,
  • in habits,
  • be-set,
  • in-habiting,
  • re-curring,
  • be sieged,
  • re turn,
  • weighing on,
  • re-appeared,
  • re curring,
  • wert ever present,
  • re-appear,
  • re appearing,
  • Re-turn,
  • re-turning,
  • be-sieging,
  • be-siege,
  • stayed with,
  • be devilled,
  • re-appearing,
  • be deviling,
  • are ever present,
  • be-setting,
  • re appears,
  • be sieging,
  • re turns,
  • re appeared,
  • am ever present,
  • was ever present,
  • be devil,
  • be sieges,
  • re-appears,
  • in-habit,
  • over runs,
  • stays with,
  • be-devilled,
  • be siege,
  • be-deviled,
  • wast ever present,
  • were ever present.
  •horrify (verb)
  • dis gusts,
  • dis-gusted,
  • dis gusted,
  • dis-gusts,
  • chilled off,
  • dis-gusting,
  • chills off,
  • dis gust,
  • dis gusting,
  • dis-gust,
  • chilling off.
  •molest (verb)
  • dis-commodes,
  • dis commodes,
  • dis commode,
  • dis-commode.
  •rattle (verb)
  • rattling ones cage,
  • rattled one cage,
  • rattled one's cage,
  • rattling one cage,
  • rattles ones cage,
  • rattle ones cage,
  • put out countenance,
  • rattling cage,
  • rattling one's cage,
  • rattles one's cage,
  • rattle cage,
  • psychs out,
  • psyching out,
  • putting out of countenance,
  • rattles one cage,
  • rattled cage,
  • rattled ones cage,
  • rattles cage,
  • puts out countenance,
  • puts out of countenance,
  • rattle one cage,
  • putting out countenance.
  •shake (verb)
  • under-mined,
  • un-stringing,
  • knocking props out,
  • knocked props out,
  • un stringing,
  • making waves,
  • un-stringed,
  • un-strings,
  • un strung,
  • un stringed,
  • unstringed,
  • un-string,
  • threw a curve,
  • throws a curve,
  • throws curve,
  • under mining,
  • throw curve,
  • under-mining,
  • un strings,
  • unstrings,
  • throwing curve,
  • under mined,
  • un-strung,
  • knocks props out,
  • throwing a curve,
  • un string,
  • threw curve.
  •shock, scare (verb)
  • bulldoze,
  • intimidate.
  •terrify (verb)
  • scare pants of,
  • scaring the pants off of,
  • scared pants off of,
  • strikes fear into,
  • strook fear in to,
  • scaring pants off of,
  • scared the pants of,
  • scares the pants off of,
  • striking fear in to,
  • struck fear in to,
  • scaring the pants of,
  • strikes fear in to,
  • strike fear in to,
  • striking fear into,
  • scare pants off of,
  • scaring pants of,
  • struck fear into,
  • scares pants off of,
  • scared pants of,
  • scares the pants of,
  • scares pants of,
  • scare the pants of,
  • strook fear into,
  • scared the pants off of.
  •terrorize (verb)
  • strike terror in to,
  • strook terror into,
  • striking terror in to,
  • strikes terror in to,
  • strook terror in to,
  • struck terror into,
  • strikes terror into,
  • struck terror in to,
  • striking terror into.
  •threaten (verb)
  • warn,
  • harass,
  • torment,
  • admonish,
  • bully,
  • Forewarn,
  • hint,
  • forebode.
  •unnerve (verb)
  • uncalmed,
  • dis arms,
  • dis-arms,
  • un-calm,
  • un calmed,
  • un nerved,
  • un calm,
  • dis-arming,
  • dis-armed,
  • dis armed,
  • uncalms,
  • un nerving,
  • un-calms,
  • dis arming,
  • uncalming,
  • un-nerve,
  • un nerves,
  • un-calmed,
  • un calming,
  • un-nerving,
  • un-nerves,
  • un calms,
  • un-nerved,
  • un-calming,
  • un nerve.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • scare into,
  • traumatize,
  • reek,
  • weigh on,
  • niggle.
  •
  • shake up,
  • spook,
  • paralyze,
  • weigh down.
  •
  • stab,
  • jangle,
  • puzzle.
  •
  • rock,
  • chill,
  • freak.
  •
  • nag.
  •
  • exercise.
  •
  • trouble.
  •alarm
  • scared silly,
  • scared stiff,
  • panic,
  • scare silly,
  • scares stiff,
  • scare stiff,
  • scare to death,
  • scared to death,
  • give a turn,
  • make jump.
  •amaze
  • awe.
  •dismay
  • mystify,
  • took aback,
  • throw into tizzy,
  • mystified,
  • snafued,
  • take aback,
  • up set,
  • consternate,
  • throw into a tizzy,
  • taking aback,
  • takes aback,
  • mucked up,
  • muck up.
  •dispirit
  • demoralize.
  •drive off
  • scare off or away.
  •endanger
  • threaten.
  •haunt
  • over-runs,
  • voodooing,
  • voodooed,
  • infests,
  • stay with,
  • obsessing,
  • pervades,
  • be ever present,
  • be set,
  • Infesting,
  • staying with,
  • over-run.
  •Other relevant words:
  • shake,
  • overawes,
  • unstringing,
  • put a damper on,
  • gets to,
  • horrify,
  • put out of countenance,
  • Uncalm,
  • keep back,
  • disinclines,
  • kept back,
  • Tyrannized,
  • Overawing,
  • Forfend,
  • rattle,
  • beat down,
  • got to,
  • get to,
  • Pothered,
  • heckling,
  • make waves,
  • galvanize,
  • dragoons,
  • showboats,
  • unnerve,
  • Disfavoring,
  • Despotize,
  • bludgeoned,
  • unnerved,
  • Disinclining,
  • Commoving,
  • strong arm,
  • burned up,
  • indispose,
  • Dragooning,
  • Frighted,
  • overborne,
  • grieve,
  • overbear,
  • put damper on,
  • makes waves,
  • act like a wet blanket,
  • terrify,
  • terrorize,
  • showboating,
  • Buffaloes,
  • Dragooned,
  • shutting out,
  • put through wringer,
  • make uneasy,
  • appal,
  • tire,
  • turned aside,
  • lean on,
  • cast down,
  • walk heavy,
  • overawe,
  • keeping back,
  • overawed,
  • Grand-stand,
  • push around,
  • haunt,
  • Indisposing,
  • overbears,
  • pushing around,
  • Disadvise,
  • Disfavored,
  • burn up,
  • discourage,
  • disturb,
  • Damping,
  • strike fear into,
  • buffalo,
  • cow,
  • unstring,
  • woken,
  • keeps back,
  • grossed out,
  • turning aside,
  • unstrung,
  • hotdogs,
  • gross out,
  • getting to,
  • prohibit,
  • lord it over,
  • scare the pants off of,
  • hotdog,
  • showboat,
  • knock props out,
  • impend,
  • over-bear,
  • throw a curve,
  • put through the wringer,
  • Frighting,
  • casting down,
  • Imprest,
  • bludgeoning,
  • Damped,
  • innervate,
  • pother,
  • burning up,
  • shut out,
  • talk out of,
  • talking out of,
  • disincline,
  • turn on the heat,
  • alarm,
  • turn aside,
  • buffaloed,
  • psych out,
  • break one's heart,
  • put heat on,
  • commove,
  • DAMPS,
  • put the chill on,
  • molest,
  • deter,
  • dragoon,
  • blew away,
  • browbeat,
  • chill off,
  • throw cold water on,
  • rattle one's cage,
  • knock socks off,
  • put chill on,
  • appall,
  • dismay,
  • Pothering,
  • heckle,
  • psyched out,
  • put off,
  • leaning on,
  • hotdogging,
  • blow away,
  • hold off.
  •threaten
  • be on the horizon,
  • put at risk,
  • hang over,
  • be imminent,
  • hanging over,
  • be in the air,
  • be in the offing,
  • put in jeopardy,
  • be dangerous,
  • be gathering.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • be terror-stricken,
  • benumb,
  • scared,
  • pall,
  • outrageously,
  • daunting,
  • stupefy,
  • dash,
  • cuisine,
  • revolt,
  • dread,
  • domineer,
  • meanly,
  • discombobulate,
  • bewildered,
  • unhinge,
  • kitchen,
  • make blood run cold,
  • alarmed,
  • perplex,
  • terrifying,
  • frighten off,
  • horridly,
  • faze,
  • numb,
  • devastating,
  • cookery,
  • be startled,
  • daunt,
  • disconcert,
  • disquiet,
  • jar,
  • shaky,
  • confound,
  • hassle,
  • anxious,
  • frightfully,
  • jolt,
  • be afraid of,
  • awful,
  • fearful,
  • abash,
  • alarmingly,
  • upset,
  • electrify,
  • strike terror into,
  • imperil,
  • go to pieces,
  • uneasy,
  • dreadfully,
  • confuse,
  • mix,
  • curdle the blood,
  • affray,
  • astound,
  • terror,
  • stagger,
  • speechless,
  • astonish,
  • pressurize,
  • rush,
  • atrociously,
  • startlingly,
  • horror,
  • tyrannize,
  • horrifically,
  • make teeth chatter,
  • pressure,
  • wind,
  • horribly,
  • funk,
  • fearfully,
  • majestically,
  • flabbergast,
  • appal orappall,
  • bowl down,
  • scare off,
  • irresistible,
  • dispirit,
  • keep after,
  • stir,
  • depress,
  • put out,
  • terrified,
  • appallingly,
  • paralyse,
  • risk,
  • threat,
  • dishearten,
  • be alarmed,
  • awing,
  • nauseate,
  • fluster,
  • afraid,
  • shockingly,
  • stiff,
  • arouse,
  • surprised,
  • disburb,
  • excite,
  • menace,
  • dumbfound,
  • be terrified,
  • be fearful,
  • scare away,
  • throw,
  • intimidating,
  • discomfit,
  • outrage,
  • make nervous,
  • rout,
  • badger,
  • agog,
  • awfully,
  • nastily,
  • terrifically,
  • scare shitless,
  • horrible,
  • ominously,
  • scary,
  • cry havoc,
  • be frightened,
  • danger,
  • lean,
  • terrifyingly,
  • scar,
  • unman,
  • stun,
  • Feeze,
  • consternation,
  • hazard,
  • frightful,
  • Direly,
  • be terror-struck,
  • fray,
  • be afraid,
  • sicken,
  • awesomely,
  • cry wolf,
  • tremulous,
  • timidly,
  • move off,
  • ruffle,
  • horrendously,
  • scourge,
  • disgust,
  • shocked,
  • stunningly,
  • food,
  • discompose,
  • frighten away,
  • fearsomely,
  • horrifyingly,
  • gruesomely,
  • Dumfound,
  • aghast,
  • hector,
  • formidable,
  • flurry,
  • make one's blood run cold,
  • scatter,
  • shy,
  • fall apart,
  • appalled,
  • amaze,
  • insurmountable,
  • horripilate,
  • dominate,
  • cooking,
  • hideously,
  • alarming,
  • discomfort,
  • endanger,
  • sound the alarm,
  • chill to the bone,
  • perturb,
  • frighteningly,
  • trepidation,
  • overwhelm,
  • bowl over,
  • disturbingly,
  • astonished,
  • make one's hair stand on end,
  • overwhelming,
  • timid,
  • daze,
  • timorously,
  • vilely,
  • curl hair.

Paraphrases for Frighten:

• Independent

  • Verb, past tense
    scared.
  • Verb, base form
    intimidate, startle, terrorise, deter, spook, threaten, fear, bully, alarm.

• Other Related

  • Verb, base form
    scare, terrorize, afraid.

Antonyms for Frighten:

• v.

  • shock, scare
    soothe, inspirit, please, help, calm, comfort, hearten, embolden, stimulate, make happy, encourage, gladden, assist, assure, exhilarate, urge, expect, delight.