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[syn: chilling, scarey, scary, shivery, shuddery]
The 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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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]
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