Word Meanings - AFRAID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear; apprehensive. "Back they recoiled, afraid." Milton. Note: This word expresses a less degree of fear than terrified or frightened. It is followed by of before the object of fear, or by the infinitive,

Additional info about word: AFRAID

Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear; apprehensive. "Back they recoiled, afraid." Milton. Note: This word expresses a less degree of fear than terrified or frightened. It is followed by of before the object of fear, or by the infinitive, or by a dependent clause; as, to be afraid of death. "I am afraid to die." "I am afraid he will chastise me." "Be not afraid that I your hand should take." Shak. I am afraid is sometimes used colloquially to soften a statement; as, I am afraid I can not help you in this matter. Syn. -- Fearful; timid; timorous; alarmed; anxious.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AFRAID)

• Fearful
• Timid
• hesitating
• terrible
• awful
• apprehensive
• frightful
• shocking
• terrific
• afraid
• horrible
• dreadful
• pusillanimous
• shy
• diffident
• coy
• timorous
• cowerly
• fainthearted
• inadventurous

Related words: (words related to AFRAID)

• APPREHENSIVENESS
  The quality or state of being apprehensive.
• HESITATION
  1. The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation. 2. A faltering in speech; stammering. Swift.
• FRIGHTFUL
  1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
• FEARFULNESS
  The state of being fearful.
• SHOCKDOG
  See 1
• PUSILLANIMOUSLY
  With pusillanimity.
• HESITATINGLY
  With hesitation or doubt.
• DREADFUL
  1. Full of dread or terror; fearful. "With dreadful heart." Chaucer. 2. Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible; as, a dreadful storm. " Dreadful gloom." Milton. For all things are less dreadful than they seem. Wordsworth. 3.
• SHOCK-HEADED
  Having a thick and bushy head of hair.
• TIMIDITY
  The quality or state of being timid; timorousness; timidness.
• FRIGHTFULNESS
  The quality of being frightful.
• TIMID
  Wanting courage to meet danger; easily frightened; timorous; not bold; fearful; shy. Poor is the triumph o'er the timid hare. Thomson. Syn. -- Fearful; timorous; afraid; cowardly; pusillanimous; faint- hearted; shrinking; retiring. -- Tim"id*ly,
• DREADFULNESS
  The quality of being dreadful.
• SHOCK
  A lot consisting of sixty pieces; -- a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods. (more info) quantity, threescore, MHG. schoc, Sw. skok, and also G. hocke a heap 1. A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set
• FRIGHTFULLY
  In a frightful manner; to a frightful dagree.
• FEARFULLY
  In a fearful manner.
• FEARFUL
  1. Full of fera, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened. Anxious amidst all their success, and fearful amidat all their power. Bp. Warburton. 2. inclined to fear; easily frightened; without courage; timid. What man is there that is fearful
• DIFFIDENT
  dif- = dis + fidere to trust; akin to fides faith. See Faith, and cf. 1. Wanting confidence in others; distrustful. You were always extremely diffident of their success. Melmoth. 2. Wanting confidence in one's self; distrustful of one's own powers;
• TIMOROUS
  1. Fearful of danger; timid; deficient in courage. Shak. 2. Indicating, or caused by, fear; as, timorous doubts. "The timorous apostasy of chuchmen." Milman. -- Tim"or*ous*ly, adv. -- Tim"or*ous*ness, n.
• TERRIFICALLY
  In a terrific manner.
• FATIMITE; FATIMIDE
  Descended from Fatima, the daughter and only child of Mohammed. -- n.
• AFFRIGHTFUL
  Terrifying; frightful. -- Af*fright"ful*ly, adv. Bugbears or affrightful apparitions. Cudworth.
• INTIMIDATORY
  Tending or serving to intimidate.
• INTIMIDATE
  To make timid or fearful; to inspire of affect with fear; to deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash. Now guilt, once harbored in the conscious breast, Intimidates the brave, degrades the great. Johnson. Syn. -- To dishearten; dispirit; abash;