All frightened synonyms
fright·ened
F f adj frightened
- afraid — If you are afraid of someone or afraid to do something, you are frightened because you think that something very unpleasant is going to happen to you.
- fearful — causing or apt to cause fear; frightening: a fearful apparition.
- anxious — If you are anxious to do something or anxious that something should happen, you very much want to do it or very much want it to happen.
- startled — to disturb or agitate suddenly as by surprise or alarm.
- panicky — a sudden overwhelming fear, with or without cause, that produces hysterical or irrational behavior, and that often spreads quickly through a group of persons or animals.
- unnerved — to deprive of courage, strength, determination, or confidence; upset: Fear unnerved him.
- spooked — Informal. a ghost; specter.
- petrified — to convert into stone or a stony substance.
- abashed — If you are abashed, you feel embarrassed and ashamed.
- frozen — past participle of freeze.
- yellow — a color like that of egg yolk, ripe lemons, etc.; the primary color between green and orange in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 570 and 590 nm.
- numb — deprived of physical sensation or the ability to move: fingers numb with cold.
- terrified — to fill with terror or alarm; make greatly afraid.
- alarmed — If someone is alarmed, they feel afraid or anxious that something unpleasant or dangerous might happen.
- affrighted — to frighten.
- butterflies — tremors in the stomach region due to nervousness
- dismayed — to break down the courage of completely, as by sudden danger or trouble; dishearten thoroughly; daunt: The surprise attack dismayed the enemy.
- cowed — intimidated; frightened
- aghast — If you are aghast, you are filled with horror and surprise.
- chicken — Chickens are birds which are kept on a farm for their eggs and for their meat.
- hung up — Slang: Vulgar. (of a male) having very large genitals.
- jittery — extremely tense and nervous; jumpy: He's very jittery about the medical checkup.
- jumpy — subject to sudden, involuntary starts, especially from nervousness, fear, excitement, etc.
- lily-livered — weak or lacking in courage; cowardly; pusillanimous.
- mousy — resembling or suggesting a mouse, as in color or odor.
- shaky — tending to shake or tremble.
- sissy — Disparaging and Offensive. an effeminate boy or man.
- uptight — tense, nervous, or jittery.
- shivery — readily breaking into shivers or fragments; brittle.
- chicken-hearted — easily frightened; cowardly
- in a sweat — perspiring
- jellyfish — any of various marine coelenterates of a soft, gelatinous structure, especially one with an umbrellalike body and long, trailing tentacles; medusa.
- rabbity — any of several soft-furred, large-eared, rodentlike burrowing mammals of the family Leporidae, allied with the hares and pikas in the order Lagomorpha, having a divided upper lip and long hind legs, usually smaller than the hares and mainly distinguished from them by bearing blind and furless young in nests rather than fully developed young in the open.
- scared stiff — terrified
- terror-stricken — overwhelmed by terror; terrified.