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Afeard vs Afeared - What's the difference?

afeard | afeared |

As adjectives the difference between afeard and afeared

is that afeard is (archaic) afraid while afeared is (dialectal) afraid.

As a verb afeared is

(afear).

afeard

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (archaic) afraid
  • * , V.ii.
    • Pray you pass with your best violence;
    I am afeard you make a wanton of me.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2009 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=John Hough, Jr. , title=Seen the Glory , chapter= citation , genre=Fiction , publisher=Simon and Schuster , isbn=9781416589655 , page=192 , passage=He's afeard of you, Luke. Don't you know that? }}

    Related terms

    * afear

    afeared

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (afear)

    • Adjective

  • (dialectal) Afraid.
  • * 1886 , Sir (Arthur Conan Doyle), "(A Study in Scarlet)"
    • I ain't afeared of anything on this side o' the grave; but I thought that maybe it was him that died o' the typhoid inspecting the drains what killed him.