3. helpful, generous, benevolent; favorable, promising, propitious, auspicious, advantageous, friendship, n. 1. amity, affinity, rapport, good o. mutual understanding, good will, good feelings, peaceful relations, cordial relations; peace, concord, harmony, accord, accordance, agreement, unity, unanimity; fraternity, brotherhood, sisterhood, fellowship, comradeship.
2. amicability, cordiality, neighborliness, friendliness. See friendliness.
3. familiarity, friendly relations, intimacy; affection, fondness, love, devotion, esteem, deep regard.
fright, n. 1. fear, scare, alarm, terror, affright, Archaic, fray, Inf. funk, panic, horror, dread; perturbation, dismay, consternation, trepidation; apprehension, misgiving, disquiet, discomfort, uneasiness; angst, fear and trembling, anguish, anxiety; trembling, shaking, quaking, quivering; All Sl. the heebie-jeebies, the jitters, the willies, the creeps.
2. bugbear, bugaboo, bogy, Inf. boogeyman, hobgoblin, ogre, specter, phantom, scarecrow; monster, gorgon; nightmare, Fr. bete noire. frighten, v. scare, affright, Archaic, fray, Scot. fley, Inf. funk, panic, throw into a panic; terrify, Inf. scare out of one's wits, Inf. make [s.o.'s] hair stand on end, Inf. scare stiff, Sl. curl [s.o.'s] hair; alarm, startle, Inf. make [s.o.] jump out of his skin, Inf. scare the living daylights out of; shock, appall, consternate, daunt, unnerve, abash, floor; terrorize, intimidate, cow, browbeat, bulldoze, threaten; disturb, distress, agitate, dismay.
frightful, adj. 1. dreadful, terrible, grievous, dire, grim, baleful, dark; terrifying, alarming, threatening, hazardous, dangerous, perilous; shocking, appalling, outrageous, amazing, startling, surprising; distressing, harrowing, rending; redoubtable, fearsome, fearful, formidable, awful.
2. horrible, horrid, horrendous, monstrous, atrocious; hideous, ghastly, eerie, grisly, gruesome, unspeakable; abhorrent, revolting, disgusting, repulsive, repugnant, loathsome, abominable, detestable, odious, vile; ugly, offensive, nasty.
3. Informal, unpleasant, unpleasing, disagreeable. See disagreeable (def 1).
frigid, adj. 1. cold, very cold, freezing, icy, algid, gelid, ice-cold, frosty, wintry, brumal, hibernal, snowy, rimy; arctic, glacial, polar, hyperborean, hy-perboreal, Siberian; bitter, zippy, sharp, brisk, snappy.
2. unenthusiastic, unperturbable, impervious, unexcitable; stony, flinty, steely, callous, hardened, obdurate, thickskinned, stoical, stoic; unemotional, unfeeling, unperturbed, unruffled; unimpassioned, passionless, lacking ardor.
3. stiff, formal, prim, rigid, strait-laced; remote, distant, inaccessible, forbidding, austere, aloof, unapproachable, stand-offish, Inf. offish; reserved, reticent, uncommunicative, unfriendly, unsociable, unamicable.
4. (sexually, of a woman) unresponsive, unexcitable, inorgasmic; cold, cold as ice, indifferent, uninterested, passive.
5. insensitive, unsympathetic, unsolicitous, heartless, cold-hearted, uncaring; soulless, not simpatico, unimaginative, unpoetic, overly pragmatic, unromantic.
frigidity, n. 1. chill, coldness, cold, gelidity, al gidity, iciness, frozenness; bitterness, rawness, sharpness.
2. indifference, apathy, inertia, lifelessness, tameness, dullness; imperturbability, imperturbation, stoniness, callousness, obdurateness, hardness, inflexibility, stoicism.