AFRAID meaning: Experiencing fear of potential danger

We found 36 dictionaries that define the word Afraid:

General (29 matching dictionaries)

afraid: Merriam-Webster
afraid: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
afraid: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
afraid: Collins English Dictionary
afraid: Vocabulary.com
Afraid, afraid: Wordnik
afraid: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
afraid: Wiktionary
afraid: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
afraid: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
afraid: Infoplease Dictionary
Afraid, afraid: Dictionary.com
afraid: Online Etymology Dictionary
afraid: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Afraid (David Bowie song), Afraid (The Neighbourhood song), Afraid: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Afraid: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
afraid: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
afraid: Rhymezone
afraid: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
afraid: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Afraid: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
afraid: FreeDictionary.org
afraid: Mnemonic Dictionary
afraid: TheFreeDictionary.com
afraid: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
afraid: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
afraid: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)

afraid: Legal dictionary

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afraid: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

afraid: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)

Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
AFRAID: Acronym Finder
afraid: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (afraid)

▸ adjective:  Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear.
▸ adjective:  (colloquial) Regretful, sorry; expressing a reluctance to face an unpleasant situation.
▸ adjective:  (used with for) Worried about, feeling concern for, fearing for (someone or something).

Opposite:

confident, fearless, brave, secure, bold

Types:

scared, terrified, fearful, nervous, worried, concerned, apprehensive, more...

Phrases:

be afraid, afraid for, afraid not, afraid so, who's afraid of virginia woolf, more...

Adjectives:

much, man, very, poor, stark, woful

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

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