shy, timid, afraid, hesitant, nervous, scared, anxious, uneasy, tense, agitated, jittery, frightened, skittish, panicky, aghast, chicken, diffident, disturbed, fainthearted, intimidated.
What’s a big word for scared?
1 scared, fearful, disquieted, apprehensive, timid, timorous.
What can I say instead of terrified?
terrified
- affrighted,
- afraid,
- aghast,
- alarmed,
- fearful,
- frightened,
- horrified,
- horror-struck,
What is the academic word for afraid?
The words apprehensive and fearful are common synonyms of afraid. While all three words mean “disturbed by fear,” afraid often suggests weakness or cowardice and regularly implies inhibition of action or utterance.
What is the difference between fearful and frightened?
As adjectives the difference between frightened and fearful is that frightened is afraid; suffering from fear while fearful is frightening.
Is fearful the same as afraid?
The words afraid and apprehensive are common synonyms of fearful. While all three words mean “disturbed by fear,” fearful implies often a timorous or worrying temperament.
What is the strongest connotation for scared?
The word terrified refers to someone extremely frightened, it generates a greater connotation than scared and refers to the same feeling.
What is a strong connotation for poor?
1 needy, indigent, impoverished, destitute, penniless, poverty-stricken, necessitous, straitened. 5 meager.
Is scared and terrified the same?
Scared is similar to terrified and frightened. It shows how people feel. Scary is similar to frightening.
What are 2 synonyms for Scared?
synonyms for scared
- afraid.
- anxious.
- fearful.
- panicky.
- startled.
- petrified.
- shaken.
- terrified.
What means terrify?
transitive verb. 1a : to drive or impel by menacing : scare. b : deter, intimidate. 2 : to fill with terror.
Is scared and intimidated the same thing?
As verbs the difference between intimidate and scare is that intimidate is to make timid or fearful; to inspire or affect with fear; to deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash while scare is to frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way.
