FRIGHT
Dictionary entry overview: What does fright mean?
• FRIGHT (noun)
The noun FRIGHT has 1 sense:
1. an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
Familiarity information: FRIGHT used as a noun is very rare.
• FRIGHT (verb)
The verb FRIGHT has 1 sense:
1. cause fear in
Familiarity information: FRIGHT used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• FRIGHT (noun)
Meaning:
An emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Synonyms:
fear; fearfulness; fright
Hypernyms ("fright" is a kind of...):
emotion (any strong feeling)
Meronyms (parts of "fright"):
cold sweat (concurrent perspiration and chill; associated with fear)
Attribute:
afraid (filled with fear or apprehension)
fearless; unafraid (oblivious of dangers or perils or calmly resolute in facing them)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fright"):
alarm; consternation; dismay (fear resulting from the awareness of danger)
intimidation (the feeling of being intimidated; being made to feel afraid or timid)
timidity; timidness; timorousness (fear of the unknown or unfamiliar or fear of making decisions)
apprehension; apprehensiveness; dread (fearful expectation or anticipation)
stage fright (fear that affects a person about to face an audience)
panic attack; scare (a sudden attack of fear)
affright; panic; terror (an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety)
hysteria (excessive or uncontrollable fear)
horror (intense and profound fear)
chill; frisson; quiver; shiver; shudder; thrill; tingle (an almost pleasurable sensation of fright)
creeps (a feeling of fear and revulsion)
• FRIGHT (verb)
Meaning:
Cause fear in
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Synonyms:
affright; fright; frighten; scare
Context examples:
The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me / Ghosts could never affright her
Hypernyms (to "fright" is one way to...):
excite; shake; shake up; stimulate; stir (stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of)
Cause:
dread; fear (be afraid or scared of; be frightened of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fright"):
consternate (fill with anxiety, dread, dismay, or confusion)
alarm; appal; appall; dismay; horrify (fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised)
intimidate (make timid or fearful)
terrify; terrorise; terrorize (fill with terror; frighten greatly)
awe (inspire awe in)
bluff (frighten someone by pretending to be stronger than one really is)
spook (frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Sentence example:
The bad news will fright him
