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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1. John Wayne:

   Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.

2. Samantha Sally:

   After I saw the script was when the beating happened, i was like,' This is absolutely not acceptable'. All I could do was talk. Moussa Elhassani became very violent and scared my son into becoming complicit. I ended up with two broken ribs on that video. I fought. I fought. It was three days after my operation with her.

3. Abby Lee Miller:

   Im scared ! i just dont like needles. Im freaking out just with the pen.

4. Officer Peter Casuccio:

   You can't do that, dude, in today's world. Listen, that thing looks real, you should be sorry, and you should be scared.

5. Audrey Mutare:

   I had really high hopes but when I lost yet another baby, I knew I had to do the embolization. For someone who loves the idea of family, I was so scared.