Afraid

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Filled with fear: afraid of ghosts; afraid to die; afraid for his life.
  • adj. Having feelings of aversion or unwillingness in regard to something: not afraid of hard work; afraid to show emotion.
  • adj. Filled with regret or concern. Used especially to soften an unpleasant statement: I'm afraid you're wrong.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear.
  • adj. regretful, sorry
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear; apprehensive.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Impressed with fear or apprehension; fearful: followed by of before the object of fear, where that is not an infinitive: as, to be afraid of death; I am afraid to go.
  • Synonyms Afraid, Frightened, Terrified, timid, shy, apprehensive, troubled, suspicious, distrustful. Afraid expresses a less degree of fear than frightened or terrified, which describe outward states. In colloquial language, I am afraid is often nearly equivalent to I suspect, I am inclined to think, or the like, and is regularly used as a kind of polite introduction to a correction, objection, etc., or to make a statement sound less positive: as, I am afraid you are wrong; I am afraid that argument won't hold.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. filled with regret or concern; used often to soften an unpleasant statement
  • adj. having feelings of aversion or unwillingness
  • adj. feeling worry or concern or insecurity
  • adj. filled with fear or apprehension
  • Equivalent
    concerned    disinclined    appalled    unnerved    alarmed    hydrophobic    numb    mysophobic    hangdog    frightened   
    Cross Reference
    timid    apprehensive   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    anxious    alarmed    fearful    timorous    timid    apprehensive    afeared    sorry   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Blade    Cade    Crusade    Dade    Jade    Kincaid    Slade    Wade    ade    aid   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    aware    ashamed    anxious    glad    sick    jealous    full    guilty    apprehensive    depress