panic-stricken

Questions about panic-stricken

What does panic-stricken mean?

panic-stricken means "thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation".

How many syllables are in panic-stricken?

panic-stricken has 4 syllables and divides as pa-nic--stric-ken under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for panic-stricken?

Close synonyms include panicky, panicked, panic-struck, terrified, frightened. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is panic-stricken a common word?

panic-stricken is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for panic-stricken come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.