adj
Meaning 1
Causing fear or anxiety
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Examples
- The tiger's jaws were scary.
- She was hiding behind her pillow during the scary parts of the film.
- He watched Conjuring but it was too scary for him.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: frightening, hair-raising, petrifying, terrifying, affreux, alarming, spine-tingling, appalling, awful, eldritch, buggish, butt-clenching, buttock-clenching, dismayful, dreadful, fearful, flaysome, flesh-crawling, formidable, freaky, frightensome, frightful, ghastly, ghostly, grisly, hair-curling, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, horripilating, pulse-pounding, scaring, scary, shocking, skin-crawling, terrible, terrorsome
Antonyms: none provided