Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| abdabs | (Sl.) terror, the frights, nerves, as in 'the screaming abdabs'. |
| adaw | (Spenser) to daunt, subdue. |
| adrad | (Spenser) afraid. |
| adread | (Obs.) to dread. |
| adred | (Spenser) afraid. |
| afear | (Spenser) to frighten. |
| afeard | (Shakesp.) afraid. |
| affear | (Spenser) to frighten. |
| affeard | (Shakesp.) afraid. |
| affeare | (Spenser) to frighten ) AFFEARD. |
| affright | to frighten. |
| affrightedly | (Adv.) AFFRIGHTED. |
| affrighten | to frighten. |
| affrightful | (Arch.) frightful. |
| affrightment | sudden fear. |
| afraid | filled with apprehension. |
| agrise | (Obs.) to terrify. |
| agrize | (Obs.) to terrify. |
| agryze | (Obs.) to terrify. |
| alarm | a state of (esp sudden) fear; (verb) to frighten by a sudden revelation of danger. |
| alarmedly | (Adv.) ALARMED, frightened. |
| alarmingly | (Adv.) ALARMING. |
| alarmism | alarmist behaviour or tendency. |
| alarmist | one who alarms others needlessly. |
| alarum | (Arch.) an alarm; (verb) to alarm. |
| amate | (Arch.) to dismay, daunt. |
| anxiety | painful or apprehensive uneasiness of mind. |
| anxious | full of anxiety. |
| anxiously | (Adv.) ANXIOUS, full of anxiety. |
| anxiousness | the state of being anxious. |
| appal | to horrify. |
| appall | to horrify. |
| appalling | dreadful, terrible. |
| appallingly | (Adv.) APPALLING, dreadful, terrible. |
| apprehensive | fearful. |
| apprehensively | (Adv.) APPREHENSIVE, fearful. |
| awe | reverential wonder or fear; (verb) to strike with awe. |
| awesome | inspiring awe. |
| awesomely | (Adv.) AWESOME, inspiring awe. |
| awesomeness | the state of being awesome. |
| awestricken | stricken with awe. |
| awestrike | to inspire great awe in. |
| awestruck | stricken with awe. |
| awsome | (Obs.) awesome. |
| bashful | shy, timid. |
| beware | to be careful. |
| beworry | to worry. |
| bloodcurdling | arousing fright or horror. |
| bloodcurdlingly | (Adv.) BLOODCURDLING, arousing fright or horror. |
| bugbear | an object or source of dread. |
| dant | (Obs.) to daunt. |
| danton | (Obs.) to daunt. |
| daunt | to intimidate. |
| daunter | one who daunts. |
| dauntingly | (Adv.) DAUNTING. |
| daunton | to daunt. |
| dismayful | terrifying. |
| dismayfully | (Adv.) DISMAYFUL, terrifying. |
| disquietude | anxiety, agitation. |
| dread | great fear; (adj.) inspiring fear (verb) to fear greatly ) DRAD, YDRED, YDRAD. |
| dreader | one who dreads. |
| dreadly | dreadful. |
| edgily | (Adv.) EDGY, nervous. |
| edgy | nervous. |
| effraide | (Obs.) afraid. |
| effray | (Obs.) fright. |
| fantad | a state of fidgetiness, uneasiness, or unreasonableness. |
| fanteeg | (Sl.) anxiety, agitation. |
| fantigue | (Sl.) anxiety, agitation. |
| fantod | a state of fidgetiness, uneasiness, or unreasonableness. |
| faze | to worry, perturb. |
| fear | a painful emotion excited by danger; (verb) to be afraid of. |
| fearer | one who fears. |
| fearful | full of fear; afraid. |
| fearfully | (Adv.) FEARFUL, full of fear; afraid. |
| fearfulness | the state of being fearful. |
| fearmonger | one who spreads fear. |
| fearmongering | the act of spreading fear. |
| fearsome | frightening. |
| fearsomely | (Adv.) FEARSOME, frightening. |
| feart | (Scots) afraid. |
| fease | to worry, perturb. |
| feaze | to worry, perturb. |
| feelbad | relating to a feeling of personal unease. |
| feese | to worry, perturb. |
| feeze | to worry, perturb. |
| flappy | in a state of nervousness. |
| flaysome | (Dial.) frightening. |
| fleg | (Scots) to frighten. |
| fley | (Scots) to frighten. |
| formidable | causing fear. |
| formidably | (Adv.) FORMIDABLE, causing fear. |
| frab | (Dial.) to worry. |
| frenziedly | (Adv.) FRENZIED. |
| frenzily | in a frenzy, frantically. |
| frenzy | a frantic state (verb) to make frantic |
| fricht | (Scots) fright; (verb) to frighten. |
| fright | sudden fear; (verb) to frighten. |
| frighten | to make afraid. |
| frightener | something or someone who frightens. |
| frighteningly | (Adv.) FRIGHTENING. |
| frightful | terrible, horrible. |
| frightfully | (Adv.) FRIGHTFUL, terrible, horrible. |
| frightsome | frightful. |
| gaingiving | (Shakesp.) a misgiving. |
| gallow | (Shakesp.) to frighten. |
| gally | gall-like, bitter (verb) to scare, daze |
| gash | ghastly (noun) a cut; (verb) to cut |
| gashful | full of gashes; hideous; frightful. |
| gashly | ghastly. |
| gast | (Shakesp.) to frighten. |
| gaster | to frighten, scare. |
| gastfull | (Spenser) terrifying; full of fear. |
| gastness | (Shakesp.) dread. |
| gastnesse | (Shakesp.) dread. |
| ghast | (Shakesp.) to strike aghast. |
| ghastful | (Spenser) terrifying; full of fear. |
| ghastfully | (Adv.) GHASTFUL, terrifying; full of fear. |
| ghastliness | the state of being ghastly. |
| ghastness | ghastliness. |
| gliff | an unexpected view of something that startles one; a sudden fear. |
| glift | (Obs.) an unexpected view of something that startles one; a sudden fear. |
| glop | a soft, gooey or sloppy semiliquid substance or mush (verb) to stare in alarm or wonder |
| greisly | (Spenser) grisly. |
| grew | a greyhound; (verb) to shudder, to make the flesh creep. |
| grewsome | gruesome. |
| griesly | (Spenser) grisly. |
| griesy | (Spenser) grisly. |
| grise | to shudder at, to terrify. |
| grisely | (Spenser) grisly. |
| grisliness | the state of being grisly. |
| grisly | horrible (noun) a grizzly bear |
| grooly | (Sl.) gruesome. |
| grue | horror; (verb) to shudder, to feel the flesh creep. |
| gruesome | causing horror. |
| gruesomely | (Adv.) GRUESOME, causing horror. |
| grysely | (Spenser) grisly. |
| grysie | (Spenser) grim, horrible. |
| habdabs | (Sl.) terror, the frights, nerves, as in 'the screaming habdabs'. |
| horrific | causing horror. |
| horrifically | (Adv.) HORRIFIC, causing horror. |
| horrify | to cause to feel horror. |
| horrifyingly | (Adv.) HORRIFYING. |
| horripilant | causing horripilation, the erection of the hair of the head or body from fear or cold. |
| horripilation | the erection of the hair of the head or body from fear or cold. |
| horror | a feeling of intense fear or repugnance. |
| intimidate | to make timid or fearful. |
| intimidatingly | (Adv.) INTIMIDATING. |
| intimidation | the act of intimidating. |
| jitteriness | the state of being jittery. |
| jittery | nervous, jumpy. |
| jumpily | (Adv.) JUMPY, nervy. |
| jumpy | nervy. |
| macaber | grim, gruesome. |
| macaberesque | somewhat macaber. |
| macabre | grim, gruesome > MACABRER, MACABREST. |
| macabrely | (Adv.) MACABRE, grim, gruesome. |
| menace | to threaten. |
| menacer | one who menaces. |
| menacingly | (Adv.) MENACING. |
| minacious | threatening. |
| minaciously | (Adv.) MINACIOUS, threatening. |
| minacity | a disposition to threaten. |
| minatorial | menacing. |
| minatorially | (Adv.) MINATORIAL, menacing. |
| minatorily | (Adv.) MINATORY, menacing. |
| minatory | menacing. |
| misdread | (Shakesp.) dread of evil to come; (verb) to fear. |
| misease | (Arch.) uneasiness. |
| nervily | (Adv.) NERVY, nervous. |
| nervy | nervous. |
| ominous | portending evil. |
| ominously | (Adv.) OMINOUS, portending evil. |
| overanxiety | excessive anxiety. |
| overanxious | excessively anxious. |
| overawe | to subdue by inspiring awe. |
| overcautious | excessively cautious. |
| overcautiously | (Adv.) OVERCAUTIOUS, excessively cautious. |
| overfear | to fear too much. |
| overtimid | too timid. |
| panicky | given to panic. |
| pavid | afraid; timid. |
| pheese | to worry, perturb. |
| pheeze | to worry, perturb. |
| phese | to worry, perturb. |
| phrensy | (Obs.) a violent and irrational excitement; delirium; (verb) to make frenzied. |
| pokerish | (US coll.) mysterious and frightening; ghostly, uncanny. |
| pokerishly | (Adv.) POKERISH, causing terror; uncanny. |
| qualm | a sudden feeling of sickness or faintness. |
| qualming | causing qualms; (noun) the state of having a qualm. |
| quayd | (Spenser) daunted. |
| rad | afraid (noun) a unit of radiation dosage; (verb) to fear |
| redoubtable | causing fear or alarm, formidable. |
| redoubtably | (Adv.) REDOUBTABLE, causing fear or alarm, formidable. |
| reluct | (Arch.) to be unwilling. |
| reluctance | the state of being reluctant. |
| reluctancy | the state of being reluctant. |
| reluctant | unwilling. |
| reluctate | to be reluctant. |
| scare | something that frightens (verb) to frighten |
| scared | afraid. |
| scarer | something or someone who scares. |
| scarey | frightening. |
| scarily | (Adv.) SCARY, frightening. |
| scariness | the quality of being scary. |
| scarre | (Scots) to scare. |
| scary | frightening. |
| scat | to scare away. |
| scaur | (Scots) to scare. |
| schrik | a sudden fright. |
| shiness | (Obs.) shyness. |
| shitless | very frightened. |
| shuddersome | causing one to shudder. |
| shy | embarrassed, bashful (noun) a sudden swerving aside; (verb) to jump aside, recoil |
| shyness | the state of being shy. |
| skear | (Dial.) a scare (verb) to scare |
| skeary | (Dial.) scary. |
| skeer | (Dial.) a scare (verb) to scare |
| skeery | (Dial.) scary. |
| skrik | a fright. |
| swivet | (Dial.) a state of extreme agitation. |
| tailpipe | to tie a tin can or similar object to the tail of a dog to frighten it. |
| tensive | giving the sensation of tenseness. |
| terribility | the state of being terrible. |
| terrible | awful (noun) a terrible thing |
| terribleness | the state of being terrible. |
| terribly | (Adv.) TERRIBLE, awful. |
| terrifier | one who terrifies. |
| terrify | to fill with terror. |
| terrifyingly | (Adv.) TERRIFYING. |
| terror | intense fear. |
| terrorful | full of terror. |
| terrorize | to inflict terror on. |
| threat | a declaration or indication of an intention to inflict harm; (verb) to threaten. |
| threatful | full of threats; having a menacing appearance. |
| timid | fearful. |
| timidity | the quality of being timid. |
| timidly | (Adv.) TIMID, fearful. |
| timidness | the state of being timid. |
| timorous | of a timid disposition, fearful. |
| timorously | (Adv.) TIMOROUS, of a timid disposition, fearful. |
| timorousness | the quality of being timorous. |
| tirrit | (Shakesp.) Mistress Quickly's word for alarm, fright. |
| tiswas | a tizzy, a state of confusion. |
| tizwas | a tizzy, a state of confusion. |
| tizz | (Coll.) a state of agitation. |
| tizzy | (Coll.) a state of agitation. |
| toey | (Aust. sl.) nervous, edgy. |
| trepid | timorous, fearful. |
| trepidant | in a state of alarmed agitation. |
| trepidation | timorous uncertain agitation. |
| trepidatory | causing trepidation, trembling; alarmed agitation. |
| ug | to dread, loathe. |
| ugsome | (Obs.) frightful, loathsome. |
| ugsomeness | (Obs.) the state of being ugsome, frightful, loathsome. |
| unappalled | not appalled. |
| unease | anxiety, insecurity. |
| unfeared | not feared. |
| unformidable | not formidable. |
| unfrighted | (Arch.) not frightened. |
| unfrightened | not frightened. |
| unnerve | to deprive of courage. |
| unscary | not scary. |
| ware | goods of a particular kind; (verb) to beware of. |
| warily | (Adv.) WARY, cautious. |
| wary | cautious. |
| wheyface | one who is pale, as from fear. |
| worriedly | (Adv.) WORRIED. |
| worrier | one that worries. |
| worry | to feel anxious and uneasy about something. |
| yitten | (Dial.) frightened. |