Usually means: Scared or feeling fear intensely.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word frightened:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. frightened: Merriam-Webster
  2. frightened: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. frightened: Collins English Dictionary
  4. frightened: Vocabulary.com
  5. Frightened, frightened: Wordnik
  6. frightened: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. frightened: Wiktionary
  8. frightened: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. frightened: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. frightened: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Frightened, frightened: Dictionary.com
  12. frightened: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Frightened: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. frightened: Rhymezone
  15. frightened: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. frightened: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. frightened: FreeDictionary.org
  18. frightened: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. frightened: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. frightened: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  21. frightened: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. frightened: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. frightened: Idioms

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▸ adjective:  Afraid; suffering from fear.

Similar:
scared, terrified, afraid, panicked, panic-stricken, panic-struck, fearful, unnerved, bewildered, alarmed, more...

Opposite:
confident, calm, fearless, reassured, secure

Types:
scared, terrified, panicked, terrifying, more...

Phrases:
frightened off, frightened rabbit, be frightened of shadow, been frightened of shadow, being frightened of shadow, more...

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    black,     gray,     dark purple,     midnight blue,     blood red, more...



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Similar:
scared, terrified, afraid, panicked, panic-stricken, panic-struck, fearful, unnerved, bewildered, alarmed, more...

Opposite:
confident, calm, fearless, reassured, secure

Types:
scared, terrified, panicked, terrifying, more...

Phrases:
frightened off, frightened rabbit, be frightened of shadow, been frightened of shadow, being frightened of shadow, frightened the life out, is frightened of shadow, was frightened of shadow, more...

Colors:
    black,     gray,     dark purple,     midnight blue,     blood red, more...



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