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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Causing fright or alarm.
  2. adj. Easily scared; very timid.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Scaring; causing or tending to cause a scare; causing fright: as, a scary situation.
  2. Inclined to be scared; subject to scares; timid.
  3. Somewhat alarmed or frightened; fluttered.
  4. n. Poor land, having only a thin coat of grass.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Causing, or able to cause, fright
  2. adj. US, colloquial, dated Subject to sudden alarm; nervous, jumpy.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Prov. Eng. Barren land having only a thin coat of grass.
  2. adj. Colloq. U. S. Subject to sudden alarm.
  3. adj. Colloq. U. S. Causing fright; alarming.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. provoking fear terror

Etymologies

  1. From scare + -y (Wiktionary)

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