Synonyms for Petrified:

adj.
• fearful
- afraid
• frightened
- Butterflies
- Chicken-hearted
- Harrowed
- agitated
- alarmed
- anxious
- apprehensive
- chicken-livered
- cowardly
- fainthearted
- fearful
- having kittens
- horrified
- in a cold sweat
- in a panic
- intimidated
- jellyfish
- jittery
- lily-livered
- paralyzed
- pushing the panic button
- rabbity
- rattled
- running scared
- scared
- startled
- terrified
- timid
- unnerved
- weak-kneed
- in a sweat
• motionless
- apoplectic
- at a standstill
- at rest
- deadlocked
- immotile
• nerveless
- yellow-bellied
- more yellow bellied
- more yellow-bellied
- more yellowbellied
- most yellow bellied
- most yellow-bellied
- most yellowbellied
- yellow bellied
- yellowbellied
• rocky
- Lapidarian
- bouldered
- pebbly
- petrous
- rock-ribbed
- rockbound
- stonelike
• spellbound
- Open-mouthed
- caught up
- openmouthed
- under a spell
• stock-still
- stockstill
• stopped
- frozen
• afraid
- co wed
- co-wed
- dis heartened
- dis mayed
- dis tressed
- dis-heartened
- dis-mayed
- dis-tressed
- faint hearted
- more aroused
- more cowed
- more daunted
- more disheartened
- more dismayed
- more faint hearted
- more faint-hearted
- more nervous
- more rattled
- more spooked
- more terror stricken
- more terror-stricken
- more terrorstricken
- more trembling
- most aroused
- most cowed
- most daunted
- most disheartened
- most dismayed
- most faint hearted
- most faint-hearted
- most rattled
- most spooked
- most terror stricken
- most terror-stricken
- most terrorstricken
- most trembling
- panic stricken
- panicstricken
- scared death
- terror stricken
- terrorstricken
- up-set
• concrete
- more caked
- more calcified
- more cemented
- more compressed
- more concrete
- more congealed
- more conglomerated
- more consolidated
- more indurate
- more poured
- more precast
- more solidified
- more steeled
- most caked
- most calcified
- most cemented
- most compressed
- most congealed
- most conglomerated
- most consolidated
- most indurate
- most poured
- most precast
- most solidified
- most steeled
- pre cast
- set stone
- un yielding
- un-yielding
• firm
- more anchored
- more bolted
- more braced
- more nailed
- more riveted
- more screwed
- more secured
- more soldered
- more tightened
- more unfluctuating
- more welded
- most anchored
- most bolted
- most braced
- most nailed
- most riveted
- most screwed
- most secured
- most soldered
- most tightened
- most unfluctuating
- most welded
- un fluctuating
- un shakable
- un-fluctuating
- un-shakable
• frozen
- more pegged
- most pegged
- turned stone
• terrified
- immobilized
- spooked
- terrorized
v.
• frightened
- disturbed
- haunted
- panicked
- set on edge
- threatened
• preserved
- Banked
- Bottled
- Embalmed
- Froze
- Mummified
- archived
- canned
- conserved
- marinated
- preserved
- quick-froze
- quick-frozen
- refrigerated
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Independent
- Adjective
  afraid, scared, worried.
- Verb, past participle
  cast, cured, hardened, reinforced, set, escalated.
Other Related
- Adjective
  frightened.
- Verb, past participle
  tightened.

What are the hypernyms for Petrified?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Other hypernyms:
afraid, aghast, fearful, frightened, panic-stricken, scared, terrified, terror-stricken, timorous.

Usage examples for Petrified

Melvale, in the vestibule behind, had stood petrified as the incident developed.

"The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories"

Charles Weathers Bump

Idris became petrified at the sight.

"In Desert and Wilderness"

Henryk Sienkiewicz

They have become petrified wholly or in part.

"Geology"

James Geikie

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