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- Dictionaryfright/frʌɪt/
noun
- 1. a sudden intense feeling of fear: "I jumped up in fright" Similar
verb
- 1. frighten: archaic "come, be comforted, he shan't fright you"
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The meaning of FRIGHT is fear excited by sudden danger : alarm. How to use fright in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Fright.
the feeling of fear, esp. if felt suddenly, or an experience of fear which happens suddenly: [ U ] When the rescue team reached him, he was shaking with fright. [ C usually sing ] You gave her a fright turning the lights out like that.
Fright is a feeling of fear, dread, or terror. You might scream in fright while watching a scary movie or riding a roller coaster. Some fright is so intense that it makes you jump; other fright is caused by anticipating something vaguely scary, like a trip to the dentist or an encounter with your mean neighbor after your baseball breaks her window.
the feeling of fear, esp. if felt suddenly, or an experience of fear which happens suddenly: [ U ] When the rescue team reached him, he was shaking with fright. [ C usually sing ] You gave her a fright turning the lights out like that.
Fright is a sudden feeling of fear, especially the fear that you feel when something unpleasant surprises you. The steam pipes rattled suddenly, and Franklin uttered a shriek and jumped with fright. The birds smashed into the top of their cages in fright.
noun. sudden intense fear or alarm. a sudden alarming shock. informal. a horrifying, grotesque, or ludicrous person or thing. she looks a fright in that hat. take fright. to become frightened.
fright a feeling of fear, usually sudden: She cried out in fright. fear or fright? Fright is a reaction to something that has just happened or is happening now. Use fear, but not fright, to talk about things that always frighten you and things that may happen in the future: I have a fright of spiders. • his fright of what might happen Patterns
1. sudden intense fear or alarm. 2. a sudden alarming shock. 3. informal a horrifying, grotesque, or ludicrous person or thing: she looks a fright in that hat. 4. take fright to become frightened. vb. a poetic word for frighten. [Old English fryhto; related to Gothic faurhtei, Old Frisian fruchte, Old High German forhta]
Fright is a sudden feeling of fear, especially the fear that you feel when something unpleasant surprises you. 2. A fright is an experience which makes you suddenly afraid.
a sudden feeling of shock and fear: That dog gave me a terrible fright. She screamed in fright when she saw him. (Definition of fright from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
