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FRIGHT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
Synonyms:
fear; fearfulness; fright
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("fright" is a kind of...):
emotion (any strong feeling)
Meronyms (parts of "fright"):
cold sweat (the physical condition of 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"):
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)
alarm; consternation; dismay (fear resulting from the awareness of danger)
Derivation:
fright (cause fear in)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cause fear in
Example:
Ghosts could never affright her
Synonyms:
affright; fright; frighten; scare
Classified under:
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"):
bluff (frighten someone by pretending to be stronger than one really is)
awe (inspire awe in)
terrify; terrorise; terrorize (fill with terror; frighten greatly)
intimidate (make timid or fearful)
alarm; appal; appall; dismay; horrify (fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised)
consternate (fill with anxiety, dread, dismay, or confusion)
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
Derivation:
fright (an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight))
Context examples:
"Get along, you fright!" screamed Polly, and at that rude speech Amy could not restrain a sniff.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Upon my word it is enough to put one in a fright.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The conclusion was scarcely intelligible from increasing fright, for she found that Mr. Crawford, under pretence of receiving the note, was coming towards her.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I have never seen any human being who appeared to be in such a pitiable fright, for his teeth were visibly chattering, and he was shaking in every limb.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He seemed to be in the last extremity of fright, with a face the color of clay and his limbs all ashake as one who hath an ague.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As far as I can see, the man has been driven out of his senses by fright.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Fanny looked very angry too, and her husband was all in a fright at his sister's audacity.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
She's an excitable, nervous person: she construed her dream into an apparition, or something of that sort, no doubt; and has taken a fit with fright.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I lived in perpetual fright at that time, and had all manner of imaginary complaints from not knowing what to do with myself, or when I should hear from him next; but as long as we could be together, nothing ever ailed me, and I never met with the smallest inconvenience.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Mother cried out in a fright, and struggled up into a sitting posture, and clutched wildly at anything that would help her.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
