Scary

Definition: Scary

Scary

Adjective

1. So scary as to cause chills and shudders; "the most terrible and shuddery...tales of murder and revenge".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "scary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1827. (references)

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Scary

Crosswords: Scary

Probably because it sounds scary. (True Lies; writing credit: Didier Kaminka.)

What, that you're a scary guy (Analyze This; writing credit: Kenneth Lonergan; Peter Tolan)

If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary)

This is scary. (The Kid; writing credit: Audrey Wells)

Unclench your ass cheeks, Delbert, the scary part's over (The General's Daughter; writing credit: Christopher Bertolini)

It's so scary in a house that allows no swearing (Sing For The Moment; performing artist: EMINEM)

Where I am the scary monster (Telling Stories; performing artist: Tracy Chapman)

So if you think it's scary, if it's more than you can take (Happy Birthday; performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic)

WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may cause you to roll over in the morning and see something really scary. (references; author: unknown)

Scary Crows (1937)

Reasonably Scary Monsters (1998)

Scary Texas Movie (1997)

The Big Scary Movie Show (1996)

Which Is Scary (1991)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories (reference)

• More Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark (reference)

• Scary Stories Boxed Set (reference)

• Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (reference)

• The Little Giant Book of 'True' Ghost Stories: 84 Scary Tales (The Little Giant Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Scary Movie (reference)

• Scary Movie 2 (reference)

• Scary Movie 2/Senseless (reference)

• Scary Movie (Special Edition) (reference)

• Zoboomafoo - Zoboo's Scary Tails (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Scary Music (reference)

• Scary Music (Dl) [SACD] (reference)

• Scary Monsters (reference)

• Scary Movie: Music That Inspired The Soundtrack? [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Tiny Toons Adventures: Scary Dreams (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Kinda scary, too.

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Health

MRI takes longer than a CT scan, and it is very noisy, which may be scary for some children. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "scary": scary devil monastery. Additional references.

Ending with "scary": hairy-scary.

Albanian

i tmerrshëm (appalling, awesome, awful, Creese, damnable, darn, deadly, deuced, dire, direful, eldritch, enormous, frightful, gruesome, hideous, horrible, horrid, infernal, macabre, parlous, perishing, redoubtable, redoubted, sad, terrible, terrific, towering, tragic, tremendous), frikacak (chicken heart, chicken hearted, coward, cowardly, Craven, dastard, dastardly, faint-heart, faint-hearted, funk, milk-livered, poltroon, pusillanimous, recreant, sneak, sneaking, white livered, yellow, yellowbellied, yellow-livered). (various references)

Arabic 

‏خواف (fearful, scared, shrinking). (various references)

Bulgarian 

страховит (awesome, creepy, fearsome, macabre), страшен (alarming, almighty, apocalyptic, awesome, awful, dire, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, forbidding, formidable, frightful, grisly, gruesome, hair raising, horrible, redoubtable, terrible, terrific, tremendous, wicked), уплашен (afraid, scare, scared), пъзлив. (various references)

Chinese 

可怕 (Awful, Dire, Fearful, Fearsome, frightful, Grewsome, gruesome, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, macaber, macabre, redoubtable, terrible). (various references)

Czech

strašidelný (creepy, frightening, ghostly, haunted, haunting, macabre, spectral, spooky, unearthly), nahánìjící hrùzu (creepy, threatening), hrùzný (apocalyptic, awesome, creepy, ghastly, harrowing, horrid, horrific, horrifying), bázlivý (chicken hearted, faint-hearted, fearful, timid, timorous, tremulous). (various references)

Farsi 

ترسناک(scarey), ترسان (Afraid). (various references)

French

qui donne des frissons, peureux (scared), macabre, effrayant (scaring), angoissant. (various references)

German

schaurig (abysmal, awful, bloodcurdling, dreadful, ghoulish, gruesome, spine-chilling), erschreckend (alarming, alarmingly, dismaying, frightening, horrific, horrifying, terrifying), ängstlich (afraid, anxious, anxiously, apprehensive, apprehensively, cringing, fearful, fearfully, funky, scared, scrupulous, scrupulously, terrified, timid, timorous, uneasy). (various references)

Greek 

έντρομοσ (aghast, frightened), φοβιτσιάρησ (chicken, fearful, white lipped), τρομακτικόσ (alarming, appalling, terrific, tremendous), τρομακτικός (appalling, fearsome, terrifying), τρομαχτικόσ (frightening, hair raising, tremendous). (various references)

Hebrew 

מפחיד (forbidding, frightening, frightful, spooky). (various references)

Hungarian

rettenetes (astounding, awful, dreadful, ghastly, hideous, horrible, horrific, monstrous, monstrously, overwhelming, terrible, terrific), rettentő (astounding, formidable, horrendous, redoubtable), rémítő (dreadful, frightening, gruesome, startling), ijesztő (appalling, awful, daunting, dread, dreadful, fearsome, forbidding, grim, gruesome, redoubtable, startling, unearthly), ijedt (be scared, frightened, scared, startled), ijedező, ijedős (fractious, jittery, milquetoastish, shy, skittish, timorous, weak-kneed), borzalmas (awful, desperate, direful, gruesome, horrid, outrageous), beijedt (funky, have the willies), beijedős, begyulladós. (various references)

Indonesian

takut (afraid, apprehensive, dastard, dread). (various references)

Italian

terrificato, pauroso (afraid, chicken hearted, eerie, fearful, frightening, nervous, timid, timorous), angoscioso (afraid, agonizing, distressing, fearful, grievous, timid, timidly). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

恐い (dreadful, eerie, frightening), 怖い (dreadful, eerie, frightening). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

こわい (dreadful, eerie, frightening). (various references)

Korean 

무서운 (Dire, Fearful, frightening, frightful, horrible). (various references)

Pig Latin

aryscay.(various references)

Portuguese

assustador (astounding, fearful, fearsome, frightener, frightful, startling), assustado (afraid, frightened, jumpy, scared, shy, startled), amedrontado (frightened), acanhado (backward, demure, diffluent, gauche, hidebound, narrow, poky, poor-spirited, scrimpy, shamefaced, sheep-faced, sheepish, shy, skimpy, timid). (various references)

Romanian

groaznic (appalling, awful, awfully, baleful, desperate, dire, dreadful, foul, frightful, ghastly, grim, groovy, gruesome, horrendous, horrent, horrible, horribly, horrid, howling, lousy, miserable, miserably, monstrous, sad, shocking, terrible, terribly, vile). (various references)

Russian 

страшно страшный, жуткий (eerie, eery, eldritch, ghastly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, spooky, terrible, terrifying, uncanny), пугливый (fearful, flighty, jittery, shivery, skittish, timid). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

strahovit (dreadful, fearsome, frightful, horrible, terrible, terrific), plašljiv (afraid, craven, fearful, fearsome, henhearted, hen-hearted, lily livered, mousey, mousy, shy, timid, tremulous). (various references)

Spanish

asustadizo (eerie, jumpy, nervous, scarey, shy, skittish). (various references)

Swedish

skrämmande (appalling, fearful, fearsome). (various references)

Turkish

korkutucu (alarming, forbidding, frightening, horror, lurid, minacious, minatory, spine-chilling, startling), korkunç (appalling, awesome, awful, cruel, desperate, dire, direful, disastrous, disgusting, dreadfull, eldritch, fearful, fearsome, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, ghoulish, gory, grim, grisly, gruesome, haircurling, hair-raiser, hellish, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, lurid, monstrous, redoubtable, shocking, sickening, terrible, terrific, terrifying), korkak (caitiff, chicken, chicken hearted, chicken-livered, cissy, coward, cowardly, Craven, dastardly, dingo, faint, faintheart, fainthearted, fearful, funk, funky, gutless, hen-hearted, lily livered, milksop, milquetoast, pigeon livered, pigeonhearted, poltroon, poor spirited, pusillanimous, rabbit, recreant, sissy, skulking, sneak, sneaking, sneaky, spiritless, timid, unmanly, weak-spirited, white livered, yellow, yellow dog), ürkek (faint, fainthearted, fearful, gun-shy, jumpy, mousy, nervous, nervy, shrinking, shy, skittish, timid, timorous, tremulous), ürkütücü (basilisk, crawly, eerie, eery, frightening, gruesome, macabre, parlous, spine-chilling, startling). (various references)

Ukrainian

жахливий (abominable, abysmal, almighty, appalling, atrocious, awesome, awful, blinking, blood-curdling, blue, chronic, damnable, damned, deadly, desperate, deuced, devilish, dire, direful, dreadful, eerie, eery, eldritch, enormous, fearful, fearsome, ferocious, flagrant, frightening, frightful, grievous, gruesome, horrible, horrific, iniquitous, macabre, monstrous, plaguy, scarey, towering, tragic, tremendous, ungodly, wretched), полохливий (coward, dastard, dastardly, funky, pavid, pigeon-hearted, poor spirited, scarey, shy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

nhát như cáy, làm sợ hãi (alarming), làm kinh hãi (appalling, appallingly), làm khiếp sợ. (various references)

formidolosa, formidolosis, formidolosus. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "scary": piscary. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Scary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Asgarby, escar, sacfry, sacri, sarcy, Sarie, sarry, Saryk, sayr, scair, scanro, scara, scarcy, scardy, scarg, scaro, scaru, scarv, scbr, scer, scervy, Schary, Sciara, sciri, Scorey, scori, Scory, scoy, scra, scraz, scry, scuri, scury, Seary, secay, shary, sicarii, sicario, skiry, skury, sparry, stary, zary. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: arcs, cars, cays, racy, rays, ryas, scar, scry.

-2 letters: arc, ars, ays, car, cay, cry, ras, ray, rya, sac, say, yar.

-3 letters: ar, as, ay, ya.

+1 letter: creasy, cymars, scarey, scarry.

+2 letters: carboys, carneys, coryzas, crassly, crayons, crystal, hyraces, myricas, piscary, satyric, scarify, scarily, scraggy, scrappy, scrawly, scrawny, screaky, sectary, starchy, syncarp.

+3 letters: acronyms, acrylics, actressy, ancestry, archways, caloyers, caraways, carryons, charleys, charpoys, coarsely, costmary, cramoisy, crayfish, crayolas, crossway, cryostat, crystals, custardy, cyprians, cytaster, decayers, hayracks, hayricks, isocracy, keycards, miscarry, raceways, rascally, sacredly, sacristy, scarcely, scarcity, scrabbly, scraggly, scratchy, spagyric, sycamore, syncarps, syncarpy, yachters.