Questions about example sentences with, and the definition and usage of "Frightened"

A: Afraid, scared, terrified

A: like scared or afraid.

A: scared/afraid

A: A feeling as a reaction to perceived danger

A:
The cat was frightened of the dog.
The monster was frightening to the child.
What a frightening experience!
She had a frightened look on her face.

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A:

I am very frightened. Please don’t leave me alone here.

Were you frightened when I suddenly jumped into view?

Don’t be frightened. Everyone here is nice.

A: He was frightened of needles.

A: They are different levels of fear.

Fearful < Afraid < Frightened < Terrified < Horrified

However we also use these words figuratively. This can make a sentence challenging to understand. Furthermore, "horrified" has a separate emotional feeling sometimes. Let's have some examples.

> He was fearful that the teacher would give the class a quiz every day, from now on.

> He was afraid of what would happen, if he didn't get a good grade on the quizzes.

> He was frightened by the strange sounds he heard in the attic.

> He was afraid to go investigate the strange sound in the attic, so he took a baseball bat with him as he climbed the stairs.

> As he climbed the stairs and got close to the attic door, he grew terrified of what he might discover.

> As he threw open the attic door, he was horrified to discover his parents dressed as 1960s hippies and dancing to The Doors.

> As he threw open the attic door, he was horrified by the mess someone had left behind.

> As he threw open the attic door, he was horrified by the blood-curdling scream directed at him.

> He slammed the door shut and ran back to his room, horrified by his own cowardice, but happy to be alive.

A: They mean the same. They are just synonyms for each other but some examples can be:
-She was frightened by the ghost.
-She got scared because someone yelled at her.
-He cried because he was scared.
-The family was frightened that their house got sold.

A: There's really no difference between them since they're basically synonyms of each other. However, I would say "frightened" evokes a stronger feeling that the word "afraid".

A: frightened and fright are the same frightend is just conjugated to past tense. And Afraid and fear are emotional adjectives meaning almost the same thing

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A: frightened means scared or afraid you can use it like
"when i saw the giant spider in my room i was really frightened"

A: get scare and feels like you cannot move your body

A: you just said it!

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