Crossword-Solution: AFRAID 6 letters, 81 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word Word Type Definition
Afraid p. a. Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear;
apprehensive.

We have 81 clues for the answer “AFRAID”

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Shivering in one's shoes 1 answer
Filled with concern. 1 answer
"I, a stranger and ___. In a world I never made."—Housman. 1 answer
"Don't Be ___ of the Dark" Robert Cray 1 answer
Latest thing (media pro Fleischer) 1 answer
Ready to run, perhaps 1 answer
More hesistant 1 answer
Frozen stiff 1 answer
Shaking, maybe 1 answer
Frozen, maybe 1 answer
Timid, frightened 1 answer
Trembling, say 1 answer
Cowering in a corner 1 answer
Feeling fear or anxiety 1 answer
Far from stout 1 answer
are you ___ of the dark? 1 answer
Gun-shy, say 1 answer
Having the willies 1 answer
Hiding under the covers 1 answer
Shaking in one's boots 2 answers
Chicken ... or cowed 2 answers
Not stout 2 answers
Filled with apprehension 2 answers
Phobic 2 answers
Frozen, perhaps 2 answers
Yellow, so to speak 2 answers
Quaking in one's boots 3 answers
Shaking in one's shoes 3 answers
Very hesitant 3 answers
Far from fearless 3 answers
uneager 4 answers
Petrified 4 answers
Shaking like a leaf 4 answers
Terror-stricken 4 answers
Trepid 4 answers
Lily-livered 5 answers
GAME (ant.) 5 answers
Faint-hearted 6 answers
Ready to run 6 answers
gutless 8 answers
BE FRIGHTENED OF 11 answers
Loath 12 answers
Rattled 18 answers
Disinclined 21 answers
unnerved 25 answers
Nervy 28 answers
craven 33 answers
Scare ___ 33 answers
Quaking 37 answers
Apprehensive 40 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
ONERCA
Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with AFRAID (5)

But I am afraid that Wendy did not really worry about her father and mother; she was absolutely confident that they would always keep the window open for her to fly back by, and this gave her complete ease of mind.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
Then he raised his hands to heaven, Called imploring on the tempest, Called Waywassimo, the lightning, And the thunder, Annemeekee; And they came with night and darkness, Sweeping down the Big-Sea-Water From the distant Thunder Mountains; And the trembling Pau-Puk-Keewis Heard the footsteps of the thunder, Saw the red eyes of the lightning, Was afraid, and crouched and trembled.
The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991
The Mole and His Mother A MOLE, a creature blind from birth, once said to his Mother: “I am sure than I can see, Mother!” In the desire to prove to him his mistake, his Mother placed before him a few grains of frankincense, and asked, “What is it?” The young Mole said, “It is a pebble.” His Mother exclaimed: “My son, I am afraid that you are not only blind, but that you have lost your sense of smell.” The Herdsman and the Lost Bull A HERDSMAN tending his flock in a forest lost a Bull-calf from the fold.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
Aren’t you afraid to go to Ivar’s in that new shirt, Emil? He might want it and take it right off your back.” Emil grinned.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
Boldwood, it is painful to have to say I am surprised, so that I don’t know how to answer you with propriety and respect—but am only just able to speak out my feeling—I mean my meaning; that I am afraid I can’t marry you, much as I respect you.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Quotes with AFRAID (3)

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.
John Lennon
Writers don't make any money at all. We make about a dollar. It is terrible. But then again we don't work either. We sit around in our underwear until noon then go downstairs and make coffee, fry some eggs, read the paper, read part of a book, smell the book, wonder if perhaps we ourselves should work on our book, smell the book again, throw the book across the room because we are quite jealous that any other person wrote a book, feel terribly guilty about throwing the schmuc…
Donald Miller Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
The baby bat Screamed out in fright,'Turn on the dark, I'm afraid of the light.
Shel Silverstein
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 81 times in crossword archives (1948–2025).