Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Causing fright or alarm.
- adjective Easily scared; very timid.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
- noun Poor land, having only a thin coat of grass.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Colloq. U. S. Subject to sudden alarm.
- adjective Colloq. U. S. Causing fright; alarming.
- noun Prov. Eng. Barren land having only a thin coat of grass.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Causing, or able to cause,
fright - adjective US, colloquial, dated Subject to sudden
alarm ;nervous ,jumpy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective provoking fear terror
Etymologies
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Examples
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Every single time the response was always tagged with the word 'scary.' â¨Ââ¨
Bethany Herr Hatfield: Re-Speaking Detroit Bethany Herr Hatfield 2011
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The word "scary" was bandied about quite frequently.
Joan E. Dowlin: The Scariest Thing About the Sept. 12 GOP Debate Was the Audience Joan E. Dowlin 2011
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Every single time the response was always tagged with the word 'scary.'
Bethany Herr Hatfield: Re-Speaking Detroit Bethany Herr Hatfield 2011
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Every single time the response was always tagged with the word 'scary.'
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Bethany Herr Hatfield 2011
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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.
The Seattle Times 2011
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But, what's truly scary, is that the Democraps are now crying racism when someone doesn't agree with the great and mighty Obamanation.
House deeply divided over proposed rebuke of Obama heckler 2009
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