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scary

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scar·y  (skâr)
adj. scar·i·er, scar·i·est
1. Causing fright or alarm.
2. Easily scared; very timid.
scari·ly adv.
scari·ness n.
scary
Adjective
[scarier, scariest] Informal quite frightening
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.scary - provoking fear terror; "a scary movie"; "the most terrible and shuddery...tales of murder and revenge"
chilling, scarey, shuddery, shivery
alarming - frightening because of an awareness of danger
scary
adjective (Informal) frightening, alarming, terrifying, shocking, chilling, horrifying, intimidating, horrendous, hairy (slang) unnerving, spooky (informal) creepy (informal) hair-raising, spine-chilling, bloodcurdling
Translations
scary [ˈskɛərɪ] adj (col) → de miedo;
it's scary → da miedo
scary [ˈskɛərɪ] adj (inf) → effrayant(e); [film] → qui fait peur
scary [ˈskɛərɪ] (inf) adj → unheimlich;
(film) → gruselig
scary [ˈskɛərɪ] adj (col) → che fa paura


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No--nothing, except he seems so scary, and keeps his doors locked night and day both, and when you knock he won't let you in till he opens the door a crack and sees who it is.
Tom Sawyer Detective by Twain, Mark View in context
She was a big one, and she was coming in a hurry, too, looking like a black cloud with rows of glow-worms around it; but all of a sudden she bulged out, big and scary, with a long row of wide-open furnace doors shining like red-hot teeth, and her monstrous bows and guards hanging right over us.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, Mark View in context
"Ay," continued the old man, in a voice, which betrayed how powerfully his own faculties retained the impression of the spectacle, "I have been a dweller in forests, and in the wilderness for three-score and ten years, and if any can pretend to know the world, or to have seen scary sights, it is myself
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