Antonyms for fright
fraɪtfright

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.7 / 3 votes

1. fright

   Alarm, according to its derivation all'arme, "to arms," is an arousing to meet and repel danger, and may be quite consistent with true courage. Affright and fright express sudden fear which, for the time at least, overwhelms courage. The sentinel discovers with alarm the sudden approach of the enemy; the unarmed villagers view it with affright. Apprehension, disquietude, dread, misgiving, and solicitude are in anticipation of danger; consternation, dismay, and terror are overwhelming fear, generally in the actual presence of that which is terrible, though these words also may have an anticipative force. Timidity is a quality, habit, or condition, a readiness to be affected with fear. A person of great timidity is constantly liable to needless alarm and even terror. Compare FEAR.

   Antonyms:
   assurance, calmness, confidence, repose, security

   Synonyms:
   affright, alarm, apprehension, consternation, dismay, disquietude, dread, fear, misgiving, panic, solicitude, terror, timidity

   Preposition:
   Alarm was felt in the camp, among the soldiers, at the news.

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Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.0 / 2 votes

1. fear, fearfulness, frightverb

   an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)

   Synonyms:
   fear, awe, fearfulness, care, concern, veneration, reverence

2. frighten, fright, scare, affrightverb

   cause fear in

   "The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me"; "Ghosts could never affright her"

   Synonyms:
   pall, scare, scare off, daunt, affright, frighten away, scare away, frighten, frighten off, dash

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. frightnoun

   Synonyms:
   alarm, fear, consternation, terror, dismay, ogre, scarecrow, guy, dowdy

How to use fright in a sentence?

1. Andrea Pergola:

   Before they could get the IV in he began to shake as someone who was cold would do, partially from fright and partially from the venom moving through his body. logan did not pick it up; it was on a branch and he brushed his arm against it.

2. Daithi Stone:

   We’re not used to heat waves … over here, it’s a novel concept. And I think we may get a fright sometime in the not too distant future.

3. Marilyn Ferguson:

   The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the self or against others.

4. Cathrine Ertmann:

   But in all of this I also saw a peace and beauty, sometimes the scare is in the brief look at something. Like when you watch a horror movie, you only see a glimpse of the ghost, murderer or monster and your imagination works all the fright up for you. I think I felt I need to see everything to make it 'normal' and undramatic. And I think it works the same way with our relation to death in general.

5. Stevie Nicks:

   If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?

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