: feeling fear : made to feel afraid
a badly frightened child
The farmer was hurrying out into the road, and his wife was standing at the gate, looking very frightened.—
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I am frightened of the dark
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Ben Travers, IndieWire, 18 Mar. 2026
Try Visual Deterrents Birds are easily frightened, so adding colorful flags that wave in the wind may keep them from landing on your lawn and dining on your grass seed.
—Michelle Mastro, The Spruce, 13 Mar. 2026
The residents are more frightened of the outside world and concerned with property values than anything Jesus said.
—Bob Strauss, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Mar. 2026
And a new study, published in the journal Emotion, suggests that a robot that mimics human breathing can also pass on frightened feelings.
—Simon Makin, Scientific American, 12 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for frightened
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“Frightened.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/frightened. Accessed 23 Mar. 2026.
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