afraid
How many syllables in afraid?
There are 2 syllables in the word afraid.How to pronounce afraid:
Synonyms for afraid:
acrophobic
afeard
afeared
affrighted
aghast
agoraphobic
alarmed
algophobic
anxious
appalled
apprehensive
aquaphobic
claustrophobic
cowardly
dismayed
faint-hearted
fear
fearful
fearfulness
fright
frightened
hangdog
horrified
horror-stricken
horror-struck
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Antonyms for afraid:
able
adventuresome
adventurous
aggressive
assertive
assured
audacious
aweless
ballsy
believing
bellicose
bold
brassy
brave
brazen
calm
calmed
can-do
categorical
certain
clear
cocky
collected
comforted
composed
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Other 2-syllable words like afraid
Here are some other common words that have 2 syllables, like afraid does.
- surprised
- lookout
- whilom
- capered
- halted
- galoots
- chowder
- lumping
- chugging
- goombah
- scrabbling
- taffrail
- Merlot
- debarred
- avion
- mangy
- stodgy
- daunted
- raiment
- reshaped
- Phillip
- louring
- warmness
- possesses
- traipse
- silky
- straggly
- precedes
- skidding
- sixteenth
- scoundrel
- artless
- concurred
- ransack
- gripping
- forename
- subside
- whizzes
- woolen
- burdie
- clumpy
- crossly
- dapper
- speeling
- baseness
- couriered
- sombre
- crisscrossed
- footle
- wisping
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