Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Causing fright or alarm.
- adj. Easily scared; very timid.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Scaring; causing or tending to cause a scare; causing fright: as, a scary situation.
- Inclined to be scared; subject to scares; timid.
- Somewhat alarmed or frightened; fluttered.
- n. Poor land, having only a thin coat of grass.
Wiktionary
- adj. Causing, or able to cause, fright
- adj. US, colloquial, dated Subject to sudden alarm; nervous, jumpy.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Prov. Eng. Barren land having only a thin coat of grass.
- adj. Colloq. U. S. Subject to sudden alarm.
- adj. Colloq. U. S. Causing fright; alarming.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. provoking fear terror
Etymologies
- From scare + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Every single time the response was always tagged with the word 'scary.”
The Huffington Post: Bethany Herr Hatfield: Re-Speaking Detroit
“Every single time the response was always tagged with the word 'scary.' â¨Â⨔
The Huffington Post: Bethany Herr Hatfield: Re-Speaking Detroit
“The word "scary" was bandied about quite frequently.”
“KAYE: In the last CNN/Opinion Research poll, 55 percent did not want to legalize same-sex marriage, but Wolfson hopes the more time people have to think about it, the more they'll be able to ignore what he calls the scary ad campaigns.”
“KAYE (voice-over): In the last CNN/Opinion Research poll, 55 percent did not want to legalize same-sex marriage, but Wolfson hopes the more time people have to think about it, the more they'll be able to ignore what he calls the scary ad campaigns.”
“KAYE: Wolfson hopes the more time people have to think about it, the more they'll be able to ignore what he calls the scary ad campaign.”
“She had struggled with regular depression for most of her life, but things got so much worse after the birth of her first child 20 years ago, so bad she even had what she called scary thoughts, like drowning her infant son.”
“Emerging from what he called scary times in the recession, he's franchised a second neighborhood gym in southeast Portland and plans to open a third on his own.”
“But, what's truly scary, is that the Democraps are now crying racism when someone doesn't agree with the great and mighty Obamanation.”
“What surprises me, saddens me and find scary is that, on this very page, there are people who are obstinate enough, intellectually dishonest enough or ignorant enough to defend her "political fitness" on the national scene. ..... or maybe their motiviation is something else that they realize they cannot express publicly in this dawn of the era of inclusion.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘scary’.
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Adjectives with 2 syllables that end ...
angry, bossy, busy, chilly, cheesy, creepy, dirty, early, funny, hairy, happy, healthy and 126 more...
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Y
What a -Y does to an otherwise common, dull word
zany, waxy, wavy, arty, chewy, bony, boxy, cozy, nosy, foxy, wiry, junky and 321 more...
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The Medley of Me
A jumble of words, sometimes contradictory, that add up to me. I'll probably be adding to this list for some time, because I'm a very complex individual. ;P
male, long-haired, big-eyed, writer, artist, guitarist, songsmith, talespinner, pilot, wannabe barnstormer, gypsy, cuddlesome and 209 more...
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Apples to Apples: Green Cards
A complete list of the green cards (adjectives) from the popular word game.
absurd, addictive, adorable, aged, American, ancient, animated, annoying, appetizing, arrogant, awesome, awkward and 237 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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The "dark" things
grave, dead, death, die, died, dies, murder, murdered, murderer, murders, murdering, murderous and 115 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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panic
panic, scared, frightened, coward, you scared the he..., jeez!, scary, holy cow, holy crap, jesus christ, shit!, chicken
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evil
spirit, ghost, macabre, haunted, faery, gothic, dark, 666, scary, evil, angel, demon and 13 more...
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Words Against Bush (and/or his admini...
These are words that have been used, might have been used, or could be used in association with the current president and/or his administration. They are only listed as a device to remind the read...
cowboy, naive, ignorant, vengeful, vindictive, grudge, petulant, angry, bully, immature, inexperienced, afraid and 85 more...
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Halloween
words that remind me of Halloween
pumpkins, masks, candy, trick-or-treat, carve, jason, whiches, scary
Tweets
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