Synonyms for scared
scared

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.6 / 25 votes

1. frightened, scaredadjective

   made afraid

   "the frightened child cowered in the corner"; "too shocked and scared to move"

   Synonyms:
   panicked, panic-stricken, panicky, panic-struck, frightened, terrified

   Antonyms:
   fearless, unafraid(p)

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. petrified

   really frightened/your shivering to much, slang.

   Submitted by anonymous on February 24, 2020  

2. afraid

   Submitted by anonymous on January 11, 2021  

3. horrified

   this word because this word means scared

   Submitted by rinat on August 20, 2019  

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:4.3 / 4 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "scared":

   afraid, frightened, fear, scary, terrified, scare, worried, spooked, startled, fright, freaked, fearful, 'rescared, shitless, affraid, creepy

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How to use scared in a sentence?

1. Merry Seabold:

   And it scared her.

2. Leland Vittert:

   It's the most scared I've been since being caught in a mob that turned on us in Tahrir Square (in Cairo, Egypt).

3. Darnell Hicks:

   Im scared for everybody else out there because I know that this could lead to a lot and something else can happen to another Black male.

4. Israeli Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon:

   There is no danger to the banks' stability. They profit when they are sleeping and shaving, all the time we are scared the banks will collapse but in the meantime, citizens collapse.

5. David Wu:

   Chinese virus, i was scared about what that meant for us Asian Americans. I braced myself for the uptick in anti-Asian violence.