Difference between Afraid and Hydrophobic

AFRAID vs HYDROPHOBIC: ADJECTIVE

Having feelings of aversion or unwillingness
Feeling worry or concern or insecurity
Filled with fear; frightened.
Filled with regret or concern. Used especially to soften an unpleasant statement.
Regretful, sorry
Filled with fear or apprehension
Filled with regret or concern; used often to soften an unpleasant statement

Abnormally afraid of water
Lacking affinity for water; tending to repel and not absorb water; tending not to dissolve in or mix with or be wetted by water
Repelling, tending not to combine with, or incapable of dissolving in water.
Of or exhibiting hydrophobia.
Of or pertaining to hydrophobia; producing or caused by rabies
Lacking an affinity for water; unable to absorb, or be wetted by water.
Of, or having hydrophobia (rabies).

Impressed with fear or apprehension; fearful: followed by of before the object of fear, where that is not an infinitive: as, to be afraid of death; I am afraid to go.
Synonyms Afraid, Frightened, Terrified, timid, shy, apprehensive, troubled, suspicious, distrustful. Afraid expresses a less degree of fear than frightened or terrified, which describe outward states. In colloquial language, I am afraid is often nearly equivalent to I suspect, I am inclined to think, or the like, and is regularly used as a kind of polite introduction to a correction, objection, etc., or to make a statement sound less positive: as, I am afraid you are wrong; I am afraid that argument won't hold.
Filled with regret or concern

Horrified, Appalled, Shocked, Panicked, Disinclined, Cowed, Alarmed, Concerned, Apprehensive, Intimidated, Petrified, Terrified, Frightened, Fearful, Scared

Polyelectrolyte, Ligand, Aliphatic, Liposome, Immiscible, Aqueous, Soluble, Substrate, Nonpolar, Amphiphilic, Lipophilic, Polymeric, Hydrophilic, Aquaphobic, Afraid

Horrified, Appalled, Shocked, Panicked, Disinclined, Cowed, Alarmed, Concerned, Apprehensive, Intimidated, Petrified, Terrified, Frightened, Fearful, Scared

Polyelectrolyte, Ligand, Aliphatic, Liposome, Immiscible, Aqueous, Soluble, Substrate, Nonpolar, Amphiphilic, Lipophilic, Polymeric, Hydrophilic, Aquaphobic, Afraid

It might have been when you were afraid of commitment, or even when you were afraid of being vulnerable.
He describes being Queer and growing up afraid of being outed, afraid of being close to other Queer teens.
The ghost or the zombie never frightened us who were not afraid, but they will run after them who were too afraid.
Milla is afraid of her: has always been afraid of her.
Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.
Once again she admitted to herself that she was afraid, horribly afraid, of the beautiful woman with the cruel eyes.
Communism is everywhere and when you try to see it, you might start to get afraid, very afraid.
Be afraid, America, be very afraid not so much of ISIS, but of the Emory college students.
No one who hates but is afraid of love, and therefore must he be afraid of God.
So the Nome was afraid of himself and afraid of everything around him.

Ethanol and methanol replace water in the tissue, exposing the internal hydrophobic proteins and breaking hydrophobic bonds to alter tertiary structure.
Relying on the hydrophobic region on such a nanodrill, hydrophobic therapeutics such as rapamycin can be easily encapsulated.
Simple diffusion allows the molecules that are hydrophobic to pass through the cell membrane, much like the hydrophobic region.
The hydrophobic tails of each individual sheet interact with one another, forming a hydrophobic interior that acts as a permeability barrier.
The substrate binding domain contains a hydrophobic binding pocket that recognizes exposed hydrophobic residues.
The Hydrophobic EffectMany folding and packing interactions are mediated by the hydrophobic effect.
Since they are typically more hydrophobic than acid dyes, some reaction will be via hydrophobic bonding.
Third, mammalian olfactory receptors have a hydrophobic binding pocket, and therefore prefer hydrophobic compounds.
Instead, hydrophobic residues are packed into the center, excluding bulk water by hydrophobic effect.
Particle formation occurred by hydrophobic interaction between the hydrophobic vitamin E side chains.