scared

English Online Dictionary. What means scared‎? What does scared mean?

English

Etymology

From scare +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

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

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:afraid

Derived terms

Translations

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