scary

4 definitions found

scary - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Scary \Sca"ry\, n. [Prov. E. scare scraggy.]
     Barren land having only a thin coat of grass. [Prov. Eng.]
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  Scary \Scar"y\, a. [From Scare.]
     1. Subject to sudden alarm. [Colloq. U. S.] --Whittier.
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     2. Causing fright; alarming. [Colloq. U. S.]
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scary - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  scary
      adj 1: provoking fear terror; "a scary movie"; "the most
             terrible and shuddery...tales of murder and revenge"
             [syn: chilling, scarey, scary, shivery,
             shuddery]

scary - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  59 Moby Thesaurus words for "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