"so much afraid" is a grammatically correct and usable phrase in written English.
For example, you could say: "I was so much afraid of the dark that I used to keep the lights on all night long."
Adrian is not so much afraid as curious.
"We're not so much afraid of the mud, now we have our wellies," reckons Lovefoxx.
He said that he wasn't so much afraid that he might die, but that he hadn't done the things that he wanted to with his life.
Jim is a likeable character, not so much afraid of other people as worried what harm might befall them because of him.
"I don't think MGM was so much afraid of the 'Prokofiev music,' " he told the symposium, alluding to Broadway director George Abbott's joking terminology for the show's symphonic score.
Especially when there are less supplies of protectives in the hospital, this makes health workers so much afraid of contracting HIV.
My son is so much more afraid than your son, they boast to their friends and neighbors.
"It's interesting to watch the young gays these days, because they're so much less afraid in general, but there are still huge communities where it's not OK at all".
It's not so much being afraid or not wanting to go to the doctors, it's the knowing that lumps on your testicles are a massive tell-tale sign of testicular cancer.
So many of them are used to having so much and afraid to lose it all.
"You're afraid to love something so much, you're afraid to be in that love," Springsteen said in 1992, describing the tensions in his offstage life that surfaced on the albums "Lucky Town" and "Human Touch".
