scared

English

Etymology

From scare + -ed.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /skɛəd/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /skɛ(ə)ɹd/, [skɛɚd]

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• (Australian) IPA^(key): /skeːd/
• (New Zealand, without the cheer–chair merger) IPA^(key): /skeəd/
• (New Zealand, cheer–chair merger) IPA^(key): /skiəd/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /skeɹd/
• (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /skɜː(ɹ)d/
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)d

Adjective

scared (comparative more scared or scareder, superlative most scared or scaredest)

1. Feeling fear; afraid, frightened.

   I’m scared I’ll miss the train.

   I got scared silly.

   The child was really scared of the dark.

   • 2015 January 13, “Hundreds of geese carcasses dumped in Yunlin amid bird flu scares”, in Focus Taiwan‎^[1], archived from the original on 09 November 2024, Society‎^[2]:

     Residents of Sihu Township in the central county of Yunlin were left scared and angry after hundreds of dead geese were found dumped in an irrigation channel Tuesday, inciting a minor panic as avian flu continues to spread throughout the country.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:afraid

Derived terms

• ascared
• I'm scared
• run scared
• scared green
• scaredly
• scaredness
• scared pink
• scared red
• scared shirtless
• scared shitless
• scared spitless
• scared stiff
• scared to death
• scared white
• scaredy
• scaredy-cat
• scaredy cat
• scaredy pants
• scaroused
• shit scared
• unscared

Translations

afraid, frightened

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• American Sign Language: 5@NearSideChesthigh-PalmBack-5@NearSideChesthigh-PalmBack 5@NearInsideChesthigh-PalmBack-5@NearInsideChesthigh-PalmBack
• Arabic: خَائِف (ar) (ḵāʔif), مَذْعُور (maḏʕūr)
• Armenian: վախեցած (vaxecʻac)
• Basque: beldurtuta
• Belarusian: спало́ханы (spalóxany), спу́джаны (spúdžany), спу́жаны (spúžany)
• Bulgarian: уплашен (bg) (uplašen)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 驚恐 / 惊恐 (zh) (jīngkǒng), 驚慌 / 惊慌 (zh) (jīnghuāng)

• Czech: vystrašený (cs)
• Danish: bange (da), ræd (da)
• Dutch: bang (nl)
• Esperanto: timigita
• Finnish: pelästynyt (fi), peloissaan (fi)
• French: effrayé (fr), avoir peur (fr)

  Old French: dubitous

• Galician: asustado
• Georgian: შეშინებული (šešinebuli)
• German: erschrocken (de), bange (de), ängstlich (de)
• Gothic: 𐌿𐍃𐍆𐌹𐌻𐌼𐌰 (usfilma), 𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌷𐍄𐍃 (faurhts)
• Greek: φοβισμένος (el) (fovisménos), τρομαγμένος (el) (tromagménos)

  Ancient Greek: ἔμφοβος (émphobos)

• Hebrew: מפוחד (mefukhád), מבוהל (mevohál)
• Hindi: भयभीत (bhaybhīt)
• Hungarian: ijedt (hu), rémült (hu)
• Icelandic: hræddur (is)
• Italian: spaventato (it), terrorizzato (it), impaurito (it)
• Japanese: 脅えた (おびえた, obieta), 怖い (ja) (こわい, kowai)
• Khmer: ខ្លាច (km) (klaac), ដោយខ្លាច (daoy klaac)
• Korean: 무서워하는 (ko) (museowohaneun)
• Lao: ຫວາດ (huāt), ຫວຳ (huam), ເກງ (kēng)
• Latin: metuens, timidus
• Latvian: bail, bailīgs
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Louisiana Creole: pœr, pè
• Macedonian: исплашен (isplašen)
• Maltese: please add this translation if you can
• Māori: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Naga:

  Khiamniungan Naga: hāh

• Norwegian: redd (no), skremt
• Old English: use the verb ondrǣdan, forht
• Polish: wystraszony, zalękniony
• Portuguese: assustado (pt)
• Romanian: înspăimântat (ro), înfricoșat (ro), speriat (ro)
• Russian: напу́ганный (ru) (napúgannyj), испу́ганный (ru) (ispúgannyj), боя́щийся (ru) (bojáščijsja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: престрашен

  Latin: prestrašen (sh)

• Sicilian: scantatu (scn)
• Slovak: ustráchaný
• Slovene: prestrašen
• Spanish: asustado (es)
• Swedish: rädd (sv)
• Thai: หวาด (th) (wàat)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: зля́каний (zljákanyj)
• Vietnamese: sợ hãi (vi)
• Welsh: ofnus (cy)
• West Frisian: bang

Verb

scared

1. simple past and past participle of scare

Anagrams

• ecards, decars, Cerdas, caders, e-cards, crased, sacred, cadres, Cedars, Des Arc, cedars, Dacres