Difference between Scared and Frightened

Scared

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: afraid, frightened

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way.

Example sentence: Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

Frightened

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To cause to feel fear; to scare; to cause to feel alarm or fright.

Example sentence: How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.