What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Fraid vs Frighten - What's the difference?

fraid | frighten |

As an adjective fraid

is eye dialect of lang=en.

As a verb frighten is

to disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify.

fraid

English

Adjective

(head)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1912, author=Edith Van Dyne, title=Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Guess ye'd better speak to 'em about spendin' so much money, Mr. Merrick; I'm 'fraid they may need it some day." " }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1873, author=Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, title=The Gilded Age, Complete, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=When a man is 'gaged in prah, he ain't fraid o' nuffin--dey can't nuffin tetch him." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1872, author=Harriet Beecher Stowe, title=Oldtown Fireside Stories, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Yis," he continued, "there was a time when folks said I could a hed Miry ef I'd asked her; and I putty much think so myself, but I didn't say nothin': marriage is allers kind o'ventursome; an' Miry had such up-and-down kind o' ways, I was sort o' fraid on't. }} ---- ==Jèrriais==

    Adjective

    (m)
  • cold

    • Derived terms

    * * * ----

    frighten

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify.

    • Synonyms

    * See also