Frightened vs Troubled - What's the difference?
frightened | troubled | Related terms |
Afraid; suffering from fear.
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(frighten)
Anxious, worried, careworn.
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*:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
(trouble)
As adjectives the difference between frightened and troubled
is that frightened is afraid; suffering from fear while troubled is anxious, worried, careworn.As verbs the difference between frightened and troubled
is that frightened is past tense of frighten while troubled is past tense of trouble.frightened
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance.But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again her partner was haled off with a frightened look to the royal circle, […].
