I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
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Frightened
//ˈfɹaɪtn̩d//
Synonyms for "frightened" (49 found)
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Related words (24)
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Synonyms
1 entriesderived
4 entriesform of
1 entrieshas subevent
1 entriesrelated to
3 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
61 translations across 33 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- ταρβαλέος adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
- ἔμφοβος adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
Arabic
1 entries- فزعان adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
Catalan
1 entries- atemorit adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 驚惶 /惊惶 adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
- 驚駭 /惊骇 adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
Czech
2 entries- vyděšený adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
- vystrašený adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
Danish
1 entries- bange adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
Dutch
2 entries- bangelijk adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
- lafhartig adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
Esperanto
1 entries- tima adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
Finnish
2 entries- kauhuissaan adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
- peloissaan adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
French
2 entries- apeuré adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
- effrayé adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
Georgian
1 entries- შეშინებული adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
German
3 entries- erschrocken adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
- furchtsam adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
- verängstigt adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌿𐍃𐍆𐌹𐌻𐌼𐌰 adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
Hungarian
1 entries- ijedt adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
Icelandic
1 entries- hræddur adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
Indonesian
1 entries- kaget adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
Italian
2 entries- allarmato adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
- spaurito adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
Japanese
1 entries- 怖い adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
Latin
4 entries- excītus adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
- exterritus adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
- formīdulōsus adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
- gelātus adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
Latvian
2 entries- bail adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
- bailīgs adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- baang adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
Norman
1 entries- êffrité adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
Old English
1 entries- ācol adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
Portuguese
3 entries- amedrontado adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
- assombrado adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
- assustado adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
Romanian
2 entries- speriat adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
- temător adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
Russian
1 entries- испу́ганный adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
Scots
4 entries- feart adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
- fleyed adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
- frichtent adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
- scarred adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- uplašen adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
- уплашен adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
Sicilian
1 entries- scantatu adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
Spanish
1 entries- atemorizado adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
Turkish
1 entries- ürkmüş adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
Winnebago
1 entries- nąąǧirexjį adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
Woiwurrung
1 entries- pampa adj (afraid, suffering from fear)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
After being frightened for many hours, her mother finally came to rescue her.
Source: tatoeba (24549)
He was very much frightened at the sight of the big snake.
Source: tatoeba (45519)
It wasn't until then that I felt really frightened.
Source: tatoeba (47015)
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