Antonyms for scare
skɛərscare

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. scarenoun

   Synonyms:
   fright, frighten, terrify

2. scarenoun

   To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way.

   Did that scare you when I said Boo!?

   Synonyms:
   fright, frighten, terrify

3. scarenoun

   A cause of slight terror; something that inspires fear or dread.

   JM is a scare to the capitalists of this country.

   Synonyms:
   fright

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. scare

   One is frightened by a cause of fear addressed directly and suddenly to the senses; he is intimidated by an apprehension of contingent consequences dependent on some act of his own to be done or forborne; the means of intimidation may act through the senses, or may appeal only to the intellect or the sensibilities. The sudden rush of an armed madman may frighten; the quiet leveling of a highwayman's pistol intimidates. A savage beast is intimidated by the keeper's whip. Employers may intimidate their employees from voting contrary to their will by threat of discharge; a mother may be intimidated through fear for her child. To browbeat or cow is to bring into a state of submissive fear; to daunt is to give pause or check to a violent, threatening, or even a brave spirit. To scare is to cause sudden, unnerving fear; to terrify is to awaken fear that is overwhelming. Compare ALARM.

   Synonyms:
   affright, alarm, appal, browbeat, cow, daunt, dismay, frighten, intimidate, terrify

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. scare

   Antonyms:
   reassure, encourage, entice, allure

   Synonyms:
   terrify, affright, intimidate, frighten, deter, dismay, daunt

Matched Categories

1. • Anxiety
   • Excite

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. panic, scarenoun

   sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events

   "panic in the stock market"; "a war scare"; "a bomb scare led them to evacuate the building"

   Synonyms:
   terror, panic attack, affright, panic

2. scare, panic attackverb

   a sudden attack of fear

   Synonyms:
   panic attack, panic

3. frighten, fright, scare, affrightverb

   cause fear in

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

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

4. daunt, dash, scare off, pall, frighten off, scare away, frighten away, scareverb

   cause to lose courage

   "dashed by the refusal"

   Synonyms:
   weary, dull, shoot, scoot, pall, cloy, flash, fatigue, fright, affright, scare off, frighten, tire, frighten away, scud, jade, die, become flat, scare away, crash, daunt, frighten off, dart, dash, smash

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. scarenoun

   Synonyms:
   fright, alarm, terror, panic, consternation

2. scareverb

   Antonyms:
   reassure

   Synonyms:
   frighten, intimidate, terrify, daunt, cow, appall, startle, affright, alarm, browbeat, dismay, terrorize, overawe

How to use scare in a sentence?

1. Donna Davis:

   Goshawks are notoriously...finely-tuned. Anything would scare them, they're very on edge, they're very difficult to train.

2. Rafael Rivera:

   The debt can scare people away. One of those individuals could be the one to find a cure for cancer. For us, it's important to have the best applicant pool possible and society deserves nothing less.

3. Aaron Clark:

   Sentiment is clearly on edge and I think the market's move has been outsized, relative to actual changes in fundamentals, i think it's more of a growth scare which is getting magnified by the moves in financial markets.

4. Naheed Nenshi:

   You have every right to be an idiot. What you don't have the right to do is you don't have the right to harass shopkeepers, you don't have the right to scare people away from downtown and from those stores at their busiest time of year, and you don't have the right to expose your children to this. This is flagrant behaviour that puts other people at risk … we [city Council] have far better things we should be doing with our time than dealing with these people [CoVID-19 anti-mask protestors].

5. Danica McKellar:

   Well, I’m starting young. This is book one of eight that that’ll be doing from Random House now, going through third grade. My mission is… kids are never going to remember a time when numbers scare them.

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