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Your message is stupid. Iraq is not afraid of you or anyone else when it has a right to claim. What you warned about is not on Iraq's agenda. Iraq is vital and powerful. It is not an opportunistic country. Your administration has not learned from the past.
Mohammed Aldouri

Meaning of "afraid" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD AFRAID

Affraied, past participle of affray (to frighten).
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF AFRAID

afraid  [əˈfreɪd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AFRAID

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Afraid is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES AFRAID MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of afraid in the English dictionary

The first definition of afraid in the dictionary is feeling fear or apprehension; frightened. Other definition of afraid is reluctant, as through fear or timidity. Afraid is also often foll by that; used to lessen the effect of an unpleasant statement regretful.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH AFRAID


Belgrade
bɛlˈɡreɪd
braid
breɪd
comrade
ˈkɒmreɪd
degrade
dɪˈɡreɪd
digitigrade
ˈdɪdʒɪtɪˌɡreɪd
downgrade
ˈdaʊnˌɡreɪd
first-grade
ˌfɜːstˈɡreɪd
frayed
freɪd
grade
ɡreɪd
high-grade
ˌhaɪˈɡreɪd
low-grade
ˈləʊɡreɪd
masquerade
ˌmæskəˈreɪd
misgrade
ˌmɪsˈɡreɪd
parade
pəˈreɪd
raid
reɪd
retrograde
ˈrɛtrəʊˌɡreɪd
tirade
taɪˈreɪd
trade
treɪd
unafraid
ˌʌnəˈfreɪd
upgrade
ʌpˈɡreɪd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AFRAID

aflame
aflatoxin
afloat
aflutter
AFM
AFN
AFNOR
afocal
afoot
afore
aforehand
aforementioned
aforesaid
aforethought
aforetime
afoul
afp
AFRAeS
afreet
afresh

WORDS THAT END LIKE AFRAID

abraid
air raid
Baedeker raid
bank raid
bear raid
border raid
counterraid
dawn raid
drug raid
drugs raid
embraid
gold braid
hit-and-run raid
no-knock raid
Noraid
ram raid
ram-raid
smash-and-grab raid
unbraid
upbraid

Synonyms and antonyms of afraid in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «AFRAID»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «afraid» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of afraid

Translation of «afraid» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AFRAID

Find out the translation of afraid to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of afraid from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «afraid» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

害怕
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

temeroso
570 millions of speakers

English

afraid
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

डर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

خائِف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

испуганный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

com medo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ভীত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

effrayé
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Takut
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

fürchten (sich)
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

・・・が怖い
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

...을 두려워하여
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Wedi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sợ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பயம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

भिऊ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

korkmuş
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

timoroso
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

przestraszony
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

наляканий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

speriat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

φοβισμένος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

bang
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

rädd
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

redd
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of afraid

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AFRAID»

The term «afraid» is very widely used and occupies the 6.998 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «AFRAID» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «afraid» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «afraid» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about afraid

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10 QUOTES WITH «AFRAID»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word afraid.
1
Paula Abdul
Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.
2
Mara Brock Akil
Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
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Mohammed Aldouri
Your message is stupid. Iraq is not afraid of you or anyone else when it has a right to claim. What you warned about is not on Iraq's agenda. Iraq is vital and powerful. It is not an opportunistic country. Your administration has not learned from the past.
4
Robert Benchley
Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.
5
Chaz Bono
When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?
6
Roz Chast
I don't like going into the basement. I'm always afraid that something's going to blow up.
7
Tessanne Chin
Own the stage, command the stage, and don't be afraid to be the best you can be.
8
Bill Cosby
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
9
Linda Evans
Find out what you don't want to know about yourself, what you're afraid of.
10
Elle Fanning
I'm pretty good with not being afraid to just go up to people and introduce myself.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AFRAID»

Discover the use of afraid in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to afraid and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
A guide to reading "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" with a critical and appreciative mind encouraging analysis of plot, style, form, and structure.
Michael Adams, 1985
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: A Play
A social event becomes a personal challenge for two faculty members and their wives at a small New England college as their inner fears and desires are exposed.
Edward Albee, 1962
3
Who's Afraid of Human Cloning?
Gregory Penceoffers a candid look at the arguments for and against for and against human cloning, and comes to some startling conclusions.
Gregory E. Pence, 1998
4
Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?: What It Means to Be Black Now
Drawing on his own experience, as well as interviews with more than 100 black Americans--including Henry Louis Gates Jr., Malcolm Gladwell, Chuck D, Soledad O-Brien, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, Aaron McGruder and more--the author explores ...
‎2011
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We are Not Afraid: The Story of Goodman, Schwerner, and ...
A new edition of a classic account about the 1964 Mississippi murders of three young civil rights activists by the Ku Klux Klan is updated to include information about the recent prosecution of Edgar Ray Killen and offers insight into the ...
Seth Cagin, Philip Dray, 2006
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Why are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to ...
A new anthology edited by America's most outrageous queer theorist!
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, 2012
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Lacan: (but Were ...
But Hitchcock is here to lure the reader into 'serious' Marxist and Lacanian considerations on the construction of meaning. Timely, provocative and original, this is sure to become a landmark of Hitchcock studies.
Slavoj Žižek, 1992
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Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Presented to great popular and critical acclaim at the Mark Taper Forum of the Los Angeles Theatre Center.
Edward Albee, 1990
9
The Guilty Are Afraid
When Jack Sheppey ends up dead in a beach hut in a wealthy town on the coast of the Pacific, his former partner in their detective agency starts a desperate quest to find his killer.
James Hadley Chase, 2000
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Be Afraid, be Very Afraid: The Book of Scary Urban Legends
An anthology of some of history's most unsettling urban legends includes the tales of a coed who is followed by a mental hospital escapee, the classic hook-man campfire story, the "Saved by a Cell Phone" tale, and more.
Jan Harold Brunvand, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AFRAID»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term afraid is used in the context of the following news items.
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Hillary Clinton's kind words for boy 'afraid' of being gay
"I'm homosexual and I'm afraid about what my future will be and that people won't like me," the accompanying caption reads. High profile ... «BBC News, Jul 15»
2
Earn up to Rs 7 lakh a month: Afraid of Gulf airlines, IndiGo hikes …
Low-cost carrier and India's biggest private airline by marketshare IndiGo has hiked salaries of its pilots by upto 13 percent and cabin crew by ... «Firstpost, Jul 15»
3
Coulter: Americans Should Be Afraid of Immigrants, Not Sharks
coulter Conservative columnist Ann Coulter told Fox & Friends Sunday morning that the media's fixation on recent shark attacks was misplaced, ... «Mediaite, Jul 15»
4
Astronomers have uncovered five new massive black holes - be afraid
The universe could be riddled with millions more black holes than previously believed, worrying new research has found. Five "supermassive" ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»
5
Jimly not afraid of criminalization
Former chairman of the Constitutional Court Jimly Asshidiqie who has passed the initial test in the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) ... «Jakarta Post, Jul 15»
6
'Voters are afraid, but No side have the painkiller of pride'
The streets are still deserted and just a smattering of people have turned out early at the polling station on Adrianou Street. The odd passing ... «Irish Times, Jul 15»
7
Share “Big-time free agents aren't afraid to go...”
Only a few days into NBA free agency, an interesting trend has emerged — premier players aren't afraid to choose smaller-market teams over ... «NewsOK.com, Jul 15»
8
Holly Madison no longer afraid of Hugh Hefner
The 35-year-old beauty said: "I won't let myself be afraid of him. I spent too many years like that. "[Hef] has no mental or emotional power over ... «Toowoomba Chronicle, Jul 15»
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Afraid of something? No excuses — address it, move on
And it's also fraught with what you're afraid of. So if you want to transition from fear to fact to action, you'll need to know what the facts are. «Greensboro News & Record, Jul 15»
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How a Plymouth lad afraid of heights became an elite hero Red …
The hero Westcountry paratrooper who saved a team-mate when a sky diving stunt jump went wrong at 1,900 feet has revealed: “I'm scared of ... «Plymouth Herald, Jul 15»

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