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Synonyms for Afraid:

• adj.

  • aghast (adjective)

  • more astounded,
  • most horrorstruck,
  • most agape,
  • more horror-struck,
  • most astounded,
  • over whelmed,
  • most astonished,
  • more dismayed,
  • most horror-struck,
  • more horror struck,
  • over-whelmed,
  • most awestruck,
  • dis-mayed,
  • horrorstruck,
  • more appalled,
  • more astonished,
  • more agape,
  • most horror struck,
  • horror struck,
  • most appalled,
  • more awestruck,
  • most dismayed,
  • more amazed,
  • most amazed,
  • more horrorstruck,
  • dis mayed.

  • alarmed (adjective)

  • more aroused,
  • most aroused.

  • all (adjective)

  • afraid.

  • anxious (adjective)

  • taut,
  • un-quiet,
  • more careful,
  • dis-tressed,
  • up tight,
  • most hyper,
  • more choked,
  • dis quieted,
  • most choked,
  • more butterflies,
  • un quiet,
  • most bugged,
  • most dreading,
  • un-glued,
  • more hacked,
  • un-quieter,
  • fidgety,
  • most disquieted,
  • un glued,
  • dis tressed,
  • worried sick,
  • over wrought,
  • more bugged,
  • sweating bullets,
  • most butterflies,
  • un quietest,
  • more dreading,
  • wreckest,
  • more clutched,
  • up-tight,
  • in tizzy,
  • most hacked,
  • most clutched,
  • most unglued,
  • in state,
  • more disquieted,
  • more unglued,
  • more spooked,
  • most spooked,
  • un quieter,
  • un-quietest,
  • more hyper,
  • shot pieces,
  • dis-quieted.

  • apprehensive (adjective)

  • in a sweat,
  • have hunch,
  • have cold feet,
  • in sweat,
  • most scaredy cat,
  • more foreboding,
  • more jellyfish,
  • more scaredy cat,
  • fore-boding,
  • fore boding,
  • in dither,
  • mis-trustful,
  • most jellyfish,
  • most scaredycat,
  • weakest,
  • more scaredycat,
  • more scaredy-cat,
  • feel bones,
  • mis trustful,
  • in cold sweat,
  • scaredycat,
  • most scaredy-cat,
  • mistrustful,
  • most foreboding.

  • averse (adjective)

  • more ill-disposed,
  • un-friendlier,
  • most illdisposed,
  • most ill disposed,
  • un friendlier,
  • un-friendliest,
  • un favorable,
  • more uneager,
  • un-favorable,
  • most disliking,
  • un-friendly,
  • un friendliest,
  • anti-pathetic,
  • dis-liking,
  • more disliking,
  • more ill disposed,
  • ill disposed,
  • un-eager,
  • dis liking,
  • un eager,
  • more illdisposed,
  • un friendly,
  • illdisposed,
  • most uneager,
  • most ill-disposed,
  • anti pathetic.

  • backward (adjective)

  • re served,
  • de-mure,
  • re tiring,
  • re-tiring,
  • re-served,
  • de mure.

  • cowardly (adjective)

  • recreant,
  • shrinking,
  • pigeonhearted,
  • lacking courage,
  • yellow-bellied,
  • weak-kneed,
  • softer,
  • Cowhearted,
  • having the willies,
  • Chicken-hearted,
  • no guts,
  • timorous,
  • lily-livered.

  • disinclined (adjective)

  • more shying,
  • not the mood,
  • un sympathetic,
  • most sticking,
  • more protesting,
  • dis-inclined,
  • not mood,
  • pro testing,
  • most objecting,
  • un-sympathetic,
  • most protesting,
  • most shying,
  • not in mood,
  • slowest,
  • most balking,
  • pro-testing,
  • more objecting,
  • more sticking,
  • more balking,
  • dis inclined.

  • fainthearted (adjective)

  • more unassertive,
  • wimpiest,
  • co wed,
  • more cowed,
  • co-wed,
  • wimpier,
  • most unassertive,
  • un-assertive,
  • un assertive,
  • having cold feet,
  • most cowed.

  • fearful (adjective)

  • spooked,
  • suspicious,
  • abashed,
  • disheartened,
  • distressed,
  • discouraged,
  • trembling,
  • upset,
  • stunned,
  • perplexed,
  • pusillanimous,
  • rabbity,
  • aflutter,
  • startled,
  • phobic,
  • disturbed,
  • in awe,
  • aroused,
  • scared stiff,
  • daunted,
  • scared to death,
  • run scared,
  • rattled,
  • faint-hearted,
  • goose-bumpy,
  • blanched,
  • cowardly,
  • frozen,
  • perturbed.

  • frightened (adjective)

  • paralyzed,
  • in a panic,
  • Harrowed,
  • chicken-livered,
  • pushing the panic button,
  • jittery,
  • having kittens,
  • agitated.

  • hesitant (adjective)

  • half hearted,
  • most faltering,
  • more faltering,
  • in decisive,
  • un predictable,
  • doubting,
  • more dawdling,
  • de-laying,
  • in-decisive,
  • un sure,
  • Half-hearted,
  • de laying,
  • un-sure,
  • most dawdling,
  • un-predictable.

  • horrified (adjective)

  • more repelled,
  • most repelled.

  • indisposed (adjective)

  • more uninclined,
  • un-caring,
  • most uninclined,
  • un caring,
  • un-inclined,
  • in-disposed,
  • un inclined,
  • in disposed.

  • insecure (adjective)

  • more questioning,
  • in securer,
  • Unpoised,
  • un-assured,
  • most unassured,
  • more unconfident,
  • un-confident,
  • un confident,
  • most delphic,
  • up air,
  • in securest,
  • un assured,
  • most unconfident,
  • most questioning,
  • more unassured,
  • more unpoised,
  • touch go,
  • most unpoised,
  • in secure,
  • in-securer,
  • up in air,
  • un poised,
  • more delphic,
  • in-securest,
  • un-poised,
  • up the air,
  • in-secure.

  • lily-livered (adjective)

  • lily livered,
  • lilylivered.

  • nervous (adjective)

  • more ruffled,
  • more unrestful,
  • highstrung,
  • most ruffled,
  • most flustered,
  • unstrung,
  • un restful,
  • un strung,
  • most unrestful,
  • un-restful,
  • up-set,
  • ex citable,
  • un-strung,
  • ex-citable,
  • more flustered,
  • more nervous,
  • high strung.

  • opposing (adjective)

  • averse.

  • Other relevant words: (adjective)

  • unrestful,
  • ill-disposed,
  • uneager,
  • timid,
  • apprehensive,
  • in suspense,
  • wrecker,
  • in turmoil,
  • loath,
  • be set,
  • palpitant,
  • Hacked,
  • all nerves,
  • in a tizzy,
  • horror-struck,
  • fearful,
  • awestruck,
  • jellyfish,
  • unassertive,
  • nervous,
  • not in the mood,
  • shy,
  • hesitant,
  • frightened,
  • vacillant,
  • shot to pieces,
  • fainthearted,
  • anguished,
  • backward,
  • nerveless,
  • have a hunch,
  • in a cold sweat,
  • touch and go,
  • get vibes,
  • panic-stricken,
  • unconfident,
  • on thin ice,
  • in a state,
  • anxious,
  • having no use for,
  • unglued,
  • biting nails,
  • Shying,
  • over-wrought,
  • lacking confidence,
  • worried,
  • hyper,
  • uninclined,
  • wimpy,
  • strung out,
  • have stage fright,
  • petrified,
  • feel in bones,
  • hanging by thread,
  • scaredy-cat,
  • Butterflies,
  • uneffusive,
  • on the qui vive,
  • in a dither,
  • aghast,
  • unwilling,
  • reluctant,
  • unsocial,
  • scaredy cat,
  • have funny feeling,
  • up set,
  • unassured,
  • running scared,
  • insecure.

  • panic-stricken (adjective)

  • panic stricken,
  • panicstricken.

  • petrified (adjective)

  • more immobilized,
  • most immobilized,
  • speechless.

  • recreant (adjective)

  • meanspirited,
  • falsehearted.

  • reluctant (adjective)

  • laggard,
  • dis heartened,
  • most demurring,
  • most grudging,
  • more disheartened,
  • in voluntary,
  • in-voluntary,
  • more laggard,
  • most disheartened,
  • more grudging,
  • most laggard,
  • dis-heartened,
  • more demurring.

  • reluctant, regretful (adjective)

  • sorry,
  • unhappy,
  • indisposed.

  • scared (adjective)

  • more panicked,
  • most panicked.

  • shy (adjective)

  • more uneffusive,
  • more introvert,
  • un-social,
  • un social,
  • most introvert,
  • more unsocial,
  • most unsocial,
  • un-effusive,
  • introvert,
  • most uneffusive,
  • un-responsive,
  • dis-trustful,
  • dis trustful,
  • un responsive,
  • self effacing,
  • selfeffacing,
  • recessive,
  • un effusive.

  • startled (adjective)

  • sur-prised.

  • timid (adjective)

  • more badgered,
  • more browbeaten,
  • most daunted,
  • most trembling,
  • most badgered,
  • more daunted,
  • more milquetoast,
  • most bullied,
  • most milquetoast,
  • most browbeaten,
  • sub missive,
  • more bullied,
  • more trembling.

  • troubled (adjective)

  • more beset,
  • dis pleased,
  • troubled,
  • be-set,
  • more tortured,
  • most pestered,
  • most irked,
  • miffed,
  • more exacerbated,
  • more riled,
  • most harrowed,
  • most riled,
  • more inconvenienced,
  • most exacerbated,
  • more harrowed,
  • more chagrined,
  • ex-acerbated,
  • dis-concerted,
  • most inconvenienced,
  • most mortified,
  • more plagued,
  • most chagrined,
  • dis concerted,
  • more aggravated,
  • more irked,
  • most plagued,
  • more pestered,
  • most beset,
  • ex acerbated,
  • most aggravated,
  • dis-pleased,
  • more mortified,
  • most tortured.

  • uneasy (adjective)

  • un stable,
  • un easier,
  • harassed,
  • more vexed,
  • most anguished,
  • more tormented,
  • un easiest,
  • un easy,
  • pre-carious,
  • most tormented,
  • un-stable,
  • un-stablest,
  • un-easy,
  • pre carious,
  • un-settled,
  • most harassed,
  • un-easier,
  • ill ease,
  • un settled,
  • more palpitant,
  • un stablest,
  • un-easiest,
  • on qui vive,
  • un stabler,
  • un-stabler,
  • more anguished,
  • more harassed,
  • most palpitant,
  • most vexed.

  • unmanly (adjective)

  • un manly,
  • un manliest,
  • un-manlier,
  • un-manly,
  • un-manliest,
  • un manlier.

  • unwilling (adjective)

  • unobliging,
  • uncheerful,
  • unready,
  • unwishful,
  • against the grain,
  • unaccommodating.

  • vacillant (adjective)

  • shillyshally.

  • vacillatory (adjective)

  • Vacillatory.

  • weak (adjective)

  • sissy,
  • unmanly.

  • worried (adjective)

  • worried stiff,
  • on pins needles,
  • on pins and needles.

• n.

  •
  • fear.

  • acrophobic (noun)

  • acrophobic.

  • afeard (noun)

  • afeard.

  • afeared (noun)

  • afeared.

  • afraid (noun)

  • disinclined,
  • aquaphobic,
  • alarmed,
  • algophobic,
  • panic-struck,
  • terror-struck,
  • terrified,
  • agoraphobic,
  • hangdog,
  • numb,
  • shitless,
  • unnerved,
  • horror-stricken,
  • scared,
  • horrified,
  • dismayed,
  • concerned,
  • browbeaten,
  • shocked,
  • terror-stricken,
  • mysophobic,
  • panicky,
  • appalled,
  • cowed,
  • hunted,
  • triskaidekaphobic,
  • intimidated,
  • xenophobic,
  • claustrophobic,
  • panicked,
  • bullied,
  • hydrophobic,
  • white-lipped.

• v.

  • Other relevant words: (verb)

  • feeling.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • fearfully,
  • uneasy,
  • traumatized,
  • overawed,
  • tame,
  • shaken,
  • supine,
  • gun-shy,
  • ascared,
  • chary.
  •
  • funky,
  • nervy,
  • fearsome.

  • abject

  • poor-spirited.

  • nervous

  • jumpy.

  • Other relevant words:

  • epicene,
  • stutter,
  • present,
  • prick,
  • overthrow,
  • formulate,
  • sad,
  • claim,
  • patch up,
  • pull,
  • look,
  • fount,
  • turn of events,
  • maladjusted,
  • call on,
  • number,
  • in all likelihood,
  • entertain,
  • shite,
  • overstrung,
  • expose,
  • mild,
  • earth tremor,
  • slashed,
  • fritter away,
  • clear-cut,
  • elastic,
  • crybaby,
  • keep,
  • thread,
  • need,
  • notion,
  • execration,
  • allure,
  • portentous,
  • correct,
  • badness,
  • pull back,
  • hard-pressed,
  • take aim,
  • aboulic,
  • discharge,
  • irritated,
  • conservative,
  • frosty,
  • arrest,
  • go under,
  • draw in,
  • cringe,
  • direct,
  • comprise,
  • paying attention,
  • elucidate,
  • tone down,
  • crystalize,
  • jeopardy,
  • flutter,
  • take a leak,
  • baffled,
  • custody,
  • dead reckoning,
  • look across,
  • bit,
  • immerse,
  • ablaze,
  • abominable,
  • hysteric,
  • dastard,
  • stirred up,
  • illuminate,
  • stinger,
  • short,
  • detestation,
  • count,
  • shop,
  • bemused,
  • score,
  • shot,
  • trim,
  • well-defined,
  • carry,
  • grovel,
  • acquit,
  • clench,
  • hesitating,
  • balmy,
  • tap,
  • wrick,
  • livid,
  • swoon,
  • shivering,
  • wheedle,
  • bothered,
  • ungratified,
  • cheerless,
  • equaliser,
  • discerning,
  • ailing,
  • turn over,
  • consume,
  • quarter,
  • blate,
  • dally,
  • cool,
  • cocksucker,
  • check,
  • dull,
  • keep back,
  • cushy,
  • cesspool,
  • facial expression,
  • face up,
  • exculpated,
  • unknowledgeable,
  • consternation,
  • wince,
  • gelded,
  • coaxial cable,
  • aflame,
  • round,
  • harbor,
  • vacillating,
  • scare off,
  • public debate,
  • earthquake,
  • supposition,
  • curb,
  • contract,
  • shrinkage,
  • faltering,
  • book,
  • confine,
  • postulate,
  • disconcert,
  • well-nigh,
  • steamed,
  • flash-frozen,
  • impart,
  • solve,
  • pass water,
  • accommodate,
  • severe,
  • frivol away,
  • ferment,
  • effeminate,
  • ill-scented,
  • bypast,
  • jolting,
  • implore,
  • shadowy,
  • close,
  • argumentation,
  • subdued,
  • inaction,
  • just about,
  • shuffling,
  • apologise,
  • unquiet,
  • highly strung,
  • good-for-nothing,
  • beg off,
  • dreaded,
  • yield,
  • luck,
  • afloat,
  • restrained,
  • fixed,
  • ruttish,
  • except,
  • throw,
  • neglect,
  • scourge,
  • turd,
  • turmoil,
  • disturb,
  • ask,
  • thin out,
  • disoriented,
  • issue,
  • savvy,
  • pantywaist,
  • demoralized,
  • denounce,
  • counterfeit,
  • dip,
  • tie,
  • horrendous,
  • or so,
  • hot and bothered,
  • prepare,
  • obdurate,
  • coax cable,
  • line,
  • depressing,
  • shuddery,
  • draw and quarter,
  • adjudge,
  • takings,
  • thunderstruck,
  • steamy,
  • thornless,
  • affect,
  • harried,
  • rack up,
  • let off,
  • jolted,
  • drag one’s heels,
  • shorten,
  • boldness,
  • aim,
  • unmanfully,
  • discredit,
  • convinced,
  • slice,
  • switch off,
  • have,
  • lead,
  • propitiation,
  • derangement,
  • run a risk,
  • glacial,
  • nail,
  • get down,
  • subscribe to,
  • dim,
  • compensate,
  • hardy,
  • pinch,
  • recessive allele,
  • easygoing,
  • brood,
  • smelly,
  • read,
  • horrific,
  • frightful,
  • dawdler,
  • vibration,
  • drawers,
  • turning,
  • confront,
  • no-account,
  • gruntle,
  • residue,
  • disputation,
  • via media,
  • drab,
  • deal,
  • diddlyshit,
  • disturbance,
  • handgrip,
  • wish,
  • impression,
  • warning device,
  • fashion,
  • learn,
  • diddly-shit,
  • pip,
  • questioning,
  • stool,
  • possibly,
  • assume,
  • resign,
  • jaundiced,
  • diddlysquat,
  • blue,
  • force,
  • dauntless,
  • ductile,
  • swooning,
  • man-of-war,
  • deplorable,
  • impenitent,
  • cesspit,
  • paralytic,
  • have got,
  • remission of sin,
  • spirit,
  • eviscerate,
  • propel,
  • cheeky,
  • amnesty,
  • crap,
  • adventure,
  • concern,
  • embarrassed,
  • spurt,
  • assoil,
  • gallic,
  • dilly-dally,
  • unrest,
  • quick-frozen,
  • mollify,
  • aby,
  • turbulent,
  • little terror,
  • seedy,
  • breed,
  • bluff,
  • spawn,
  • dulled,
  • feel,
  • pee-pee,
  • alas,
  • damages,
  • command,
  • hooking,
  • frantic,
  • awed,
  • horrify,
  • remorseful,
  • slash,
  • unsealed,
  • dazed,
  • trend,
  • forecast,
  • residual,
  • mother,
  • menace,
  • indemnity,
  • fence,
  • ingest,
  • fortune,
  • convey,
  • strike,
  • fallible,
  • pitiful,
  • terribleness,
  • percipient,
  • pack,
  • hold back,
  • pacify,
  • enlighten,
  • approximate,
  • clutches,
  • dingy,
  • value,
  • exempt,
  • dump,
  • lame,
  • dying,
  • satisfaction,
  • cut back,
  • tactile sensation,
  • fawn,
  • hire,
  • hold up,
  • dysphoric,
  • crystallize,
  • mould,
  • snub,
  • swing,
  • add,
  • milksop,
  • lenient,
  • frenetic,
  • build,
  • relieve oneself,
  • easy,
  • delay,
  • upturned,
  • cargo area,
  • emasculate,
  • voiced,
  • poulet,
  • fretful,
  • dogshit,
  • astounded,
  • ill at ease,
  • adopt,
  • tamed,
  • drop down,
  • riskiness,
  • see,
  • get,
  • remitment,
  • whip,
  • etiolate,
  • good-for-naught,
  • trouble,
  • etiolated,
  • edit,
  • depress,
  • yellowness,
  • sharp-sightedness,
  • call for,
  • hard put,
  • smell,
  • chasten,
  • ca-ca,
  • coolheaded,
  • turncoat,
  • flaccid,
  • meritless,
  • syncope,
  • good turn,
  • incertain,
  • palaver,
  • touch sensation,
  • alarm clock,
  • dilatory,
  • scruple,
  • eat up,
  • lure,
  • flighty,
  • free pardon,
  • on the spur of the moment,
  • recessionary,
  • randy,
  • foetid,
  • libra,
  • foul,
  • forged,
  • venture,
  • touch on,
  • cop,
  • dismal,
  • compass,
  • hoot,
  • discombobulated,
  • oblige,
  • poke,
  • play,
  • expiation,
  • wimp,
  • balance wheel,
  • mean,
  • riotous,
  • dominate,
  • swage,
  • emasculated,
  • attractor,
  • drag one’s feet,
  • secure,
  • vacillate,
  • heal,
  • cleared,
  • fermentation,
  • aimless,
  • pissed,
  • all in,
  • pissed off,
  • slow-witted,
  • institute,
  • figure,
  • resupine,
  • compliments,
  • fake,
  • produce,
  • manufacture,
  • pay off,
  • exculpate,
  • cunctation,
  • clutch,
  • weigh,
  • diddly,
  • bowl over,
  • upheaval,
  • restore,
  • gone,
  • guard,
  • stimulated,
  • flexible,
  • illiterate,
  • no-count,
  • shivery,
  • front crawl,
  • intuitive feeling,
  • feeding bottle,
  • turnover,
  • decipherable,
  • time lag,
  • obligate,
  • mistrust,
  • withstand,
  • disheartenment,
  • remit,
  • influence,
  • lapse,
  • shoot,
  • sack up,
  • well,
  • depend,
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  • sir noel pierce coward,
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  • judge,
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  • microseism,
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  • excitement,
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  • tump over,
  • sensationalistic,
  • veneration,
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  • planless,
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  • concord,
  • all of a sudden,
  • flicker,
  • baseball swing,
  • bendable,
  • alertness,
  • compensation,
  • disruptive,
  • defy,
  • even off,
  • apprehensiveness,
  • manic,
  • treasure,
  • fall back,
  • lay on the line,
  • pick out,
  • get hold of,
  • sonant,
  • dire,
  • low-down,
  • ignore,
  • renegade.

  • shy

  • skittish.

How to use «Afraid» in context?

The word «afraid» conjures up a range of emotions in almost everyone who hears it. It can be the fear of being on the receiving end of a physical attack, or the fear of embarrassment or humiliation. For some people, the word can also evoke feelings of being trapped or even of being powerless. Afraid can be an overwhelming emotion, one that can make us feel like we’re helpless and unable to cope. But despite its power, being afraid doesn’t have to be a bad thing. In fact, sometimes it can be a sign that we’re alive and in the here and now.

Paraphrases for Afraid:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    apprehensive, fearful, scared.
  • Proper noun, singular
    scared.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    scared.
  • Adverb
    scared.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    bang, frightening, hesitant, nervous, petrified, reluctant, shy, terrified, timid, wary, affraid.
  • Proper noun, singular
    Worries.
  • Adverb
    unfortunately.
  • Verb, past tense
    worried, Did, Got, ‘rescared.
  • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
    AM.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    worried, Worries, forces, frightens, wants.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    anxious, concerned, frightened, worried.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    fright.
  • Verb, past tense
    scared.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    scares.
  • Verb, base form
    frighten.

Homophones for Afraid:

• aboveboard, abrade, avert, afeard, abroad, aberrate, afford, apart, afeared, apartheid, aphrodite, abfarad, Afro hairdo, aboard, aborad, abort, avaritia.

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Synonyms:

abate,
calm down,
check,
contract,
crumble,
curb,
curtail,
cut down,
decay,
decline.

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“Afraid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/afraid. Accessed 14 Apr. 2023.