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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. provoking fear terror;
- Example: "a scary movie"
- Example: "the most terrible and shuddery...tales of murder and revenge"
[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.] [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Scary \Scar"y\, a. [From Scare.] 1. Subject to sudden alarm. [Colloq. U. S.] --Whittier. [1913 Webster] 2. Causing fright; alarming. [Colloq. U. S.] [1913 Webster]
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