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scary
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective scary has 1 sense
- scary(s = adj.all) chilling, scarey, shivery, shuddery - provoking fear terror; "a scary movie"; "the most terrible and shuddery...tales of murder and revenge"
CIDE DICTIONARY
scary, n. [Prov. E. scare scraggy.].
Barren land having only a thin coat of grass. [1913 Webster]
scary, a. [From Scare.].
- Subject to sudden alarm. Whittier. [1913 Webster]
- Causing fright; alarming. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
scary, adj. (scarier, scariest) colloq. scaring, frightening.
Derivative
scarily adv.
THESAURUS
scary
aghast, alarming, anxious, awing, bashful, chilling, cowardly, crawly, creepy, daunting, deterrent, deterring, diffident, disconcerting, discouraging, disheartening, dismaying, disquieting, eerie, fear-inspiring, fearful, fearing, fearsome, frightened, frightening, frightful, goosy, hair-raising, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrifying, in fear, intimidating, jumpy, mousy, nervous, overawing, rabbity, scared, scaring, shaky, shivery, shrinking, shy, skittery, skittish, spine-chilling, spooky, startling, startlish, terrified, terrifying, timid, timorous, trembling, tremulous, trepidant, trigger-happy
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