Afraid

Adjective

 * 1)  Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear.
 * 2)  regretful, sorry

Adverbs for Afraid
superstitiously; timidly; childishly; queerly; curiously; dreadfully; horribly; perpetually; oddly; strangely;  starkly;  mysteriously; faint-heartedly; cautiously; timorously; extraordinarily; unquestionably; secretly; terribly; mortally; foolishly; frightfully; constantly; cravenly; temperamentally; distressingly;  unwontedly;  unusually;  incredibly; shudderingly; surprisingly; unutterably; incomprehensibly;  obviously; genuinely; suspiciously; idiotically;  nervously.

Synonyms for Afraid

 * afeared, alarmed, anxious, apprehensive, fearful, timid, timorous, terrified, terror-stricken, frightened, cowardly
 * sorry

Antonyms for Afraid
fearless, valiant gallant, courageous, valorous, bold, brave, intrepid, heroic, confident, undaunted, undismayed, venturesome, collected, audacious.

Thesaurus
abulic; afeared; aghast; anxious; apologetic; apprehensive; averse; backward; cautious; chary; chicken; chickenhearted; coward; cowardly; cowed; craven; daunted; dismayed; edgy; faint; fainthearted; fear-struck; feared; fearful; feeble; feebleminded; frail; frightened; fritter; funking; funky; haunted with fear; henhearted; hesitant; indisposed; infirm; intimidated; invertebrate; jittery; jumpy; lily-livered; loath; milk-livered; milksoppish; milksoppy; mousy; nervous; on edge; overtimid; overtimorous; panic-prone; panic-stricken; panicky; pigeonhearted; pliable; pusillanimous; rabbity; regretful; reluctant; rueful; scared; scared to death; scary; shrinking; shy; sissified; sissy; skittish; soft; sorry; spineless; spooked; terrified; timid; timorous; uneager; unhappy; unmanly; unmanned; unwilling; wary; weak; weak-kneed; weak-minded; weak-willed; weakhearted; white-livered; yellow

Etymology
From affrayed:, affraied:, past participle of afraien:, from  afrayer:, from  effreer:, esfreer:, from undefined: + undefined:, of  origin, from  *undefined:, from, from , from. Cognate with fridu:,  friþ:, Old English freod:,  Friede:. Compare also. More at,.

Derived terms

 * 'fraid
 * afraidness
 * I'm afraid not
 * I'm afraid so
 * unafraid

Translations

 * American Sign Language:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: peloissaan, see also verb pelätä
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: expressed by a phrase using the noun "fear"


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 怖い (こわい, kowai)
 * Kazakh:
 * Korean:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Polish: obawiać się
 * Russian:, испуган
 * Spanish: tener miedo
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: takot
 * Ute: i'javaga (Chemehuevi)


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 恐怕
 * Finnish:, see also verb pelätä


 * Norwegian:
 * Spanish: temerse que