Synonyms for Afraid:

adj.
• cowardly
- Cowhearted
- having the willies
- lacking courage
- lily-livered
- no guts
- softer
• fearful
- aflutter
- cowardly
- goose-bumpy
• frightened
- Harrowed
- agitated
- alarmed
- chicken-livered
- having kittens
- horrified
- in a panic
- intimidated
- jittery
- paralyzed
- pushing the panic button
- rattled
- scared
- scared stiff
- startled
- terrified
- terror-stricken
- unnerved
- weak-kneed
• recreant
- falsehearted
- meanspirited
• unwilling
- against the grain
- unaccommodating
- uncheerful
- unobliging
- unready
- unwishful
• vacillant
- shillyshally
• worried
- on pins and needles
- worried stiff
• aghast
- dis mayed
- dis-mayed
- horror struck
- horrorstruck
- more agape
- more amazed
- more appalled
- more astonished
- more astounded
- more awestruck
- more dismayed
- more horror struck
- more horror-struck
- more horrorstruck
- most agape
- most amazed
- most appalled
- most astonished
- most astounded
- most awestruck
- most dismayed
- most horror struck
- most horror-struck
- most horrorstruck
- over whelmed
- over-whelmed
• alarmed
- more aroused
- most aroused
• all
- afraid
• anxious
- dis quieted
- dis tressed
- dis-quieted
- dis-tressed
- in state
- in tizzy
- more bugged
- more butterflies
- more careful
- more choked
- more clutched
- more disquieted
- more dreading
- more hacked
- more hyper
- more spooked
- more unglued
- most bugged
- most butterflies
- most choked
- most clutched
- most disquieted
- most dreading
- most hacked
- most hyper
- most spooked
- most unglued
- over wrought
- shot pieces
- sweating bullets
- taut
- un glued
- un quiet
- un quieter
- un quietest
- un-glued
- un-quiet
- un-quieter
- un-quietest
- up tight
- up-tight
- worried sick
- wreckest
• apprehensive
- feel bones
- fore boding
- fore-boding
- have hunch
- in a sweat
- in cold sweat
- in dither
- in sweat
- mis trustful
- mis-trustful
- mistrustful
- more foreboding
- more jellyfish
- more scaredy cat
- more scaredy-cat
- more scaredycat
- most foreboding
- most jellyfish
- most scaredy cat
- most scaredy-cat
- most scaredycat
- scaredycat
- weakest
• averse
- anti pathetic
- anti-pathetic
- dis liking
- dis-liking
- ill disposed
- illdisposed
- more disliking
- more ill disposed
- more ill-disposed
- more illdisposed
- more uneager
- most disliking
- most ill disposed
- most ill-disposed
- most illdisposed
- most uneager
- un eager
- un favorable
- un friendlier
- un friendliest
- un friendly
- un-eager
- un-favorable
- un-friendlier
- un-friendliest
- un-friendly
• backward
- de mure
- de-mure
- re served
- re tiring
- re-served
- re-tiring
• disinclined
- dis inclined
- dis-inclined
- more balking
- more objecting
- more protesting
- more shying
- more sticking
- most balking
- most objecting
- most protesting
- most shying
- most sticking
- not in mood
- not mood
- not the mood
- pro testing
- pro-testing
- slowest
- un sympathetic
- un-sympathetic
• fainthearted
- co wed
- co-wed
- having cold feet
- more cowed
- more unassertive
- most cowed
- most unassertive
- un assertive
- un-assertive
- wimpier
- wimpiest
• hesitant
- Half-hearted
- de laying
- de-laying
- doubting
- half hearted
- in decisive
- in-decisive
- more dawdling
- more faltering
- most dawdling
- most faltering
- un predictable
- un sure
- un-predictable
- un-sure
• horrified
- more repelled
- most repelled
• indisposed
- in disposed
- in-disposed
- more uninclined
- most uninclined
- un caring
- un inclined
- un-caring
- un-inclined
• insecure
- Unpoised
- in secure
- in securer
- in securest
- in-secure
- in-securer
- in-securest
- more delphic
- more questioning
- more unassured
- more unconfident
- more unpoised
- most delphic
- most questioning
- most unassured
- most unconfident
- most unpoised
- touch go
- un assured
- un confident
- un poised
- un-assured
- un-confident
- un-poised
- up air
- up in air
- up the air
• lily-livered
- lily livered
- lilylivered
• nervous
- ex citable
- ex-citable
- high strung
- highstrung
- more flustered
- more nervous
- more ruffled
- more unrestful
- most flustered
- most ruffled
- most unrestful
- un restful
- un strung
- un-restful
- un-strung
- unstrung
- up-set
• shy
- introvert
• uneasy
- harassed
Other synonyms:

•

fearsome
funky
nervy

•

fear

Other relevant words:

• abject

poor-spirited

• nervous

jumpy

• Other relevant words (adjective):

• Other relevant words (noun):

feeling

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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.

What are the hypernyms for Afraid?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Other hypernyms:
apprehensive, fearful, intimidated, scared.

What are the opposite words for afraid?

The opposite of afraid is fearless or brave. It indicates the absence of fear and the willingness to confront challenges and dangers. Other antonyms for afraid include confident, courageous, intrepid, bold, and daring. These words signify courage, strength, and fearlessness that inspire people to face their fears and overcome obstacles. The antonym of afraid represents a mindset that prioritizes action, courage, and resilience in the face of adversity. It is important to cultivate a positive attitude and a strong sense of confidence, courage, and strength to overcome fear and anxiety and to achieve one's goals and aspirations.

What are the antonyms for Afraid?

adj.
• active
- fireball
- hard working
- hard-working
- high spirited
- in tense
- in tenser
- in-tense
- in-tenser
- in-tensest
- more bustling
- more enlivened
- more fireball
- more hard-working
- more hyper
- most bustling
- most enlivened
- most fireball
- most hard working
- most hard-working
- on move
- on the move
- whizer
- whizest
• adventurous
- daring
• all
- unafraid
• audacious
- Gutty
- aweless
- guttier
- guttiest
- more aweless
- more daredevil
- more uncurbed
- most aweless
- most uncurbed
- smart ass
- un afraid
- un curbed
- un daunted
- un-afraid
- un-curbed
- un-daunted
- un-governed
- uncurbed
• bold
- brave
- coming on strong
- coming strong
- de finite
- de-finite
- eye catching
- eyecatching
- in solent
- in trepid
- in-solent
- in-trepid
- most intrepid
- pre sumptuous
- smart alecky
- smartalecky
• bold, brave
- gutsy
• bold, courageous
- dauntless
• brash
- flipper
- flippest
- head long
- head-long
- headlong
- ill advised
- illadvised
- in cautious
- in considerate
- in discreet
- in-cautious
- in-considerate
- in-discreet
- insolent
- more self asserting
- more self-asserting
- more selfasserting
- most precipitate
- most self asserting
- most self-asserting
- most selfasserting
- pre-sumptuous
- reckless
- self asserting
- self-asserting
- selfasserting
- selfassertive
- un tactful
- un-diplomatic
- un-tactful
- up pity
- up-pity
• brassy
- more overbold
- most overbold
- over-bold
- overbold
- un abashed
- un-abashed
- un-blushing
• brave
- Unblenching
- Undauntable
- Unfearful
- bold
- chin up
- chin-up
- chinup
- hardy
- herolike
- more chin up
- more chin-up
- more chinup
- more herolike
- more unblenching
- more undauntable
- more undismayed
- more unfearful
- most chin up
- most chin-up
- most chinup
- most herolike
- most unblenching
- most undauntable
- most undismayed
- most unfearful
- plucky
- stalwart
- un blenching
- un dismayed
- un fearful
- un-blenching
- un-dismayed
- un-fearful
- undismayed
- valiant
• brave, bold
- courageous
• brave, champion
- heroic
• brave, nervy
- intrepid
• brave, splendid
- gallant
• brave, willing
- game
• careless, impulsive
- rash
• certain, assured
- confident
• cheeky
- ballsier
- ballsiest
- ballsy
- dis respectful
- dis-respectful
• chivalrous
- gentlemanlike
- great hearted
- greathearted
- high minded
- highminded
- more gentlemanlike
- more noble minded
- more noble-minded
- more nobleminded
- most gentlemanlike
- most noble minded
- most noble-minded
- most nobleminded
- noble minded
- noble-minded
- nobleminded
- sub lime
- sub-lime
• confident
- bet on
- having faith in
- more racked
- most racked
- self assured
- self reliant
- self sufficient
- selfassured
- selfreliant
- selfsufficient
- up beat
- up-beat
• courageous
- Impavid
- fire-eating
- fireeating
- manly
- more fire eating
- more fire-eating
- more fireeating
- more impavid
- more red blooded
- more red-blooded
- more redblooded
- more trojan
- most fire eating
- most fire-eating
- most fireeating
- most impavid
- most red blooded
- most red-blooded
- most redblooded
- most trojan
- red blooded
- redblooded
- stand tall
- venturesome
• daring
- fire eating
- go for broke
- hot shot
- out a limb
- out limb
- salty
• dauntless
- in vincible
- in-vincible
- more unfearing
- most unfearing
- un conquerable
- un fearing
- un-conquerable
- un-fearing
- unfearing
• desperate
- death defying
- death-defying
- deathdefying
- devil may care
- head-strong
- more death defying
- more death-defying
- more deathdefying
- most death defying
- most death-defying
- most deathdefying
• determined, strong-willed
- resolute
• fearful
- calm
- composed
- cool
- eager
- fearless
- happy
- undaunted
- unworried
• fearless
- bodacious
- chestier
- chestiest
- chesty
- cool hand
- more bodacious
- most bodacious
• firm
- dead set on
- ex act
- ex-act
- in flexible
- in tent
- in-flexible
- more never-failing
- more neverfailing
- more resolved
- more stipulated
- more undeviating
- most never failing
- most never-failing
- most neverfailing
- most resolved
- never failing
- never-failing
- neverfailing
- pre vailing
- re-solved
- un bending
- un changeable
- un qualified
- un shaken
- un wavering
- un yielding
- un-bending
- un-changeable
- un-deviating
- un-qualified
- un-shakable
- un-shaken
- un-wavering
- un-yielding
- undeviating
• foolhardy
- off deep end
- out on limb
- wide open
• game
- de formed
- de-formed
- dis posed
- dis-posed
- in capacitated
- in-capacitated
- more interested
- most interested
- pre pared
- pre-pared
- up for
• granular
- gritty
• gritty
- Sabulous
- branlike
- calculous
- gravelly
- more branlike
- more calculous
- more gravelly
- more pulverant
- most branlike
- most calculous
- most pulverant
- most sabulous
- pulverant
• gutsy
- L
- more l
- most l
• heroic
- Lion-hearted
- bigger than life
- epic
- grandiose
- high flown
- highflown
- lion hearted
- more epic
- more lion hearted
- more lion-hearted
- most epic
- most lion hearted
- most lion-hearted
• impetuous, rash
- foolhardy
• impudent
- cheeky
• impulsive, brazen
- brash
• lively, vivacious
- spirited
• manly
- Heman
- Stout-hearted
- beefcake
- colter
- coltest
- he man
- hunkest
- jockest
- jockstrap
- more beefcake
- more jockstrap
- more stout hearted
- more stout-hearted
- more two fisted
- more two-fisted
- more twofisted
- more well built
- more well-built
- more wellbuilt
- most jockstrap
- most stout hearted
- most stout-hearted
- most tiger
- most two fisted
- most two-fisted
- most twofisted
- most well built
- most well-built
- most wellbuilt
- studder
- studdest
- two fisted
- two-fisted
- twofisted
- well built
- well-built
- wellbuilt
• masculine
- aper
- apest
- caveman
- generative
- more caveman
- more stallion
- more tuna
- most caveman
- most generative
- most stallion
- most tuna
- stallion
• nervy
- nervy
• noun
- adventuresome
- adventurous
- assured
- collected
- daredevil
- dashing
- inclined
- lionhearted
- manful
- sanguine
- spunky
- stout
- stouthearted
- sure
- unconcerned
- unperturbed
- valorous
- venturous
• precipitant
- harum scarum
- un considered
- un-considered
• rash
- Insuppressible
- illconsidered
- in judicious
- in suppressible
- in-judicious
- in-suppressible
- jumping conclusions
- more insuppressible
- most insuppressible
- over hasty
- over-hasty
- overhasty
- pre mature
- pre maturer
- pre maturest
- pre-maturer
- precipitant
- un guarded
- un thinking
- un warier
- un wariest
- un wary
- un-guarded
- un-thinking
- un-wariest
- un-wary
• reckless
- helter skelter
- helterskelter
- in-attentive
- more overventuresome
- more uncareful
- most overventuresome
- most uncareful
- over venturesome
- over-venturesome
- playing with fire
- un careful
- uncareful
• reckless, daring
- audacious
• reckless, outrageous
- desperate
• reluctant, regretful
- glad
- ready
- willing
• resolute
- intent up on
- intent upon
- more persisting
- most persisting
- re solute
- re-solute
- un changing
- un compromising
- un faltering
- un-changing
- un-compromising
- un-faltering
- un-flagging
- unflinching
• shameless
- dis solute
- dis-solute
- high handed
- highhanded
- in corrigible
- in-corrigible
- more unashamed
- most unashamed
- re probate
- re-probate
- un ashamed
- un chaste
- un chaster
- un chastest
- un principled
- un-ashamed
- un-chaste
- un-chaster
- un-chastest
- un-principled
- unashamed
• spirited
- chirpier
- chirpiest
- chirpy
- full life
- gingery
- more gingery
- more rocking
- most gingery
- most rocking
- zappier
- zappy
- zestier
- zestiest
- zesty
- zingiest
- zingy
• stalwart
- bound determined
- brick wall
- brick-wall
- brickwall
- more brick wall
- more brick-wall
- more brickwall
- more powerhouse
- more steamroller
- most brick wall
- most powerhouse
- most steamroller
- powerhouse
- re doubtable
- re-doubtable
• steadfast
- in-exorable
- re liabler
- re liablest
- re-liable
- re-liabler
- re-liablest
- single minded
- singleminded
- trueblue
- un movable
- un questioning
- un swerving
- un-movable
- un-swerving
• stout
- able bodied
- ablebodied
- more thick bodied
- more thick-bodied
- more upholstered
- more zaftig
- most thick bodied
- most thick-bodied
- most thickbodied
- most upholstered
- most zaftig
- stouter
- thick-bodied
- thickbodied
- up holstered
- zaftig
• strong, unyielding
- tenacious
• tenacious
- more retentive
- more unforgetful
- most cohesive
- most retentive
- most unforgetful
- retentive
- strong willed
- un forgetful
- un-forgetful
- unforgetful
• unalterable, definite
- firm
• unflinching
- more unblinking
- more unintimidated
- more unshrinking
- most unblinking
- most unintimidated
- most unshrinking
- un blinking
- un flinching
- un intimidated
- un shrinking
- un-blinking
- un-flinching
- un-intimidated
- un-shrinking
- unblinking
- unintimidated
- unshrinking
• valiant
- chivalrous
- strongwilled
• venturesome
- most daredevil
- over bold
- re sourceful
• very involved in activity
- active
• vulgar, loud to the senses
- brassy
Other relevant words:

indifferent
keen

Usage examples for Afraid

I am afraid of myself.

"The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories"

Charles Weathers Bump

I'm afraid, Tom, you'll have to take in your sister.

"Jane Oglander"

Marie Belloc Lowndes

I was afraid that you might be away.

"Jane Oglander"

Marie Belloc Lowndes

Famous quotes with Afraid

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'

John Abbott
I cannot harness a horse. I am afraid of a cow.

Lyman Abbott
Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.

Paula Abdul
I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger.

Edmond About
Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

Abigail Adams

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