Scary

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Scary \Sca"ry\, n. [Prov. E. scare scraggy.]
     Barren land having only a thin coat of grass. [Prov. Eng.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  scary
       adj : so scary as to cause chills and shudders; "the most terrible
             and shuddery...tales of murder and revenge" [syn: {chilling},
              {scarey}, {shivery}, {shuddery}]
       [also: {scariest}, {scarier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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