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fraɪtfright

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English Synonyms and Antonyms4.7 / 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.

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

    Antonyms:
    assurance, calmness, confidence, repose, security

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

Princeton's WordNet2.0 / 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

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. frightverb

    Synonyms:
    [Poetical.] frighten

  2. frightnoun

    Synonyms:
    alarm, affright, terror, dismay, consternation, panic, sudden fear

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. frightnoun

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

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "fright":

    afraid, scared, fear, scare

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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. Judge Kevin Ryan:

    A large portion of the local population were terrorized. Many were forced to flee their homes. Some did not not have places to go, and had to rent hotel rooms or leave the area. Many residents did not sleep for many nights, afraid that these two extremely violent individuals might be outside their homes, law enforcement officers came here not just from across New York state, but from all over the country. They traversed very inhospitable territory, never knowing if the next step they took in deeply wooded areas might be their last. And think of their families at home, sick with concern and fright for their loved ones. At any time, you could have stopped the escape from happening.

  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. Paul Njoroge:

    I think about their last six minutes a lot. My wife and mum-in-law knew they were going to die. They had to somehow comfort the children during those final moments, i have nightmares about how they must have clung to their mother, crying, seeing the fright in her eyes.

  5. Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco:

    While hes driving at his victim, he could see the look of fright on the victims face, this man is absolutely evil.


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