fright

Speech parts

1. fright - Noun

2. fright - Adjective

3. fright - Verb

Meaning

A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.

Anything strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion.

To alarm suddenly; to shock by causing sudden fear; to terrify; to scare.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

fear terror alarm dismay scare consternation frighten fearfulness affright scarecrow stampede start turn cassino affray
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Antonyms

belle lulu fortitude security confidence beauty
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Hypernyms

emotion stimulate shake stir excite shake up

Hyponyms

tingle bluff shudder spook horror panic

Phrases with the word

in fright take fright at fright of darkness burn not your house to fright the mouse away give someone the fright of their life throw into a fright

Derivatives

frighted frighting

Examples

Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion. Thomas More

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright. Walter Benjamin

At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past. Isaac Asimov

Burn not your house to fright the mouse away. English Proverb

The dog's bark is not might but fright. Madagascan Proverb

The dog's bark is not might, but fright. Liberia Proverb

Close letter words and terms

frigging friggitello friggle fright disease fright of darkness fright of flying