Fright vs Aright - What's the difference?
fright | aright |
A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.
* 1994 , (Stephen Fry), (The Hippopotamus) Chapter 2:
Anything strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion.
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , I:
Rightly, correctly; in the right way or form.
*, I.56:
To make right; put right; arrange or treat properly.
* 2003 , John Beebe, Terror, Violence, and the Impulse to Destroy :
As verbs the difference between fright and aright
is that fright is (archaic) to frighten while aright is to make right; put right; arrange or treat properly.As a noun fright
is a state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.As an adverb aright is
rightly, correctly; in the right way or form.fright
English
Noun
(wikipedia fright)- With a bolt of fright he remembered that there was no bathroom in the Hobhouse Room. He leapt along the corridor in a panic, stopping by the long-case clock at the end where he flattened himself against the wall.
- Her maids were old, and if she took a new one,
- You might be sure she was a perfect fright ;
- She did this during even her husband's life
- I recommend as much to every wife.
Derived terms
* fright wigaright
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Adverb
(en adverb)- it is not easie we should so often settle our minds in so regular, so reformed, and so devout a seat, where indeed it ought to be, to pray aright and effectually: otherwise our praiers are not only vaine and unprofitable, but vicious.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) arighten, .Verb
(en verb)- But, from working with those who have felt exiled and damned, excoriated and benumbed, and yet have made it back to useful and creative life again, I know there are more sure, albeit intense, ways to aright oneself.