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chiunomayaxxx
17 nov 2015

  • Japonês
  • Inglês (EUA)
  • Alemão
  • Inglês (Reino Unido)
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Afraid, scared, frightened, terrified, horrified

Can someone arrange these words above in order of fear scale and put each one on a scale of 1 to 10?
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Sumin
17 nov 2015

  • Inglês (EUA)
  • Espanhol (México) Quase Fluente

Natural

Scared, afraid, frightened, terrified, horrified
C: you were very close.

kazul
17 nov 2015

  • Inglês (EUA)

Natural

I mostly agree with Sumin.
* afraid, scared (these two are about the same for me)
* * frightened
* * * terrified

In my opinion, "horrified" is not exactly the same as the other four words. It suggests that you are appalled and upset by something, not necessarily that you are afraid of it (although usually something horrifying is also frightening). For example, I could be horrified when my boyfriend is rude to my parents, but not frightened.

hapybrian
17 nov 2015

  • Inglês (EUA)

Pouco natural

I don't see any difference between the levels of afraid, scared, and frightened.
Terrified (from "terror") is higher.
See also : petrified.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningengli...

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chiunomayaxxx
18 nov 2015

  • Japonês
Thank you guys. It's clear to me. Horrified isn't necessarily used as the meaning of fear. What about petrified?
hapybrian
18 nov 2015

  • Inglês (EUA)

Pouco natural

Petrified is very, very, very scared = terrified = so scared that I cannot move. @_@;;;;

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chiunomayaxxx
18 nov 2015

  • Japonês
ありがとう(^^)
つまり、terrified と petrified は めちゃくちゃ怖いってことやね？！
Horrified は "ゾッとする" みたいなニュアンスなんかなぁ？
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hapybrian
18 nov 2015

  • Inglês (EUA)

Pouco natural

せやな。
horrifiedはhorror/horribleなことに会うときのきもち。
「ゾッとする」→初耳！

while eating, I was horrified to find a frog in my salad.

確かに「ゾッとする」みたいですね：
http://ejje.weblio.jp/content/horrified

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chiunomayaxxx
18 nov 2015

  • Japonês
あっ、関西弁(^^)
ありがとう！
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