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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Scary \Sca"ry\, noun [Prov. E. scare scraggy.] Barren land having only a thin coat of grass. [Prov. Eng.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Scary \Scar"y\, adjective [From {Scare}.]
1. Subject to sudden alarm. [Colloq. U. S.] --Whittier.
2. Causing fright; alarming. [Colloq. U. S.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
scary
adjective: so scary as to cause chills and shudders; "the most terrible and shuddery...tales of murder and revenge" [syn: {chilling}, {scarey}, {shivery}, {shuddery}] [also: {scariest}, {scarier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
59 Moby Thesaurus words for "scary": aghast, alarming, anxious, awing, bashful, chilling, cowardly, crawly, creepy, daunting, deterrent, deterring, diffident, disconcerting, discouraging, disheartening, dismaying, disquieting, eerie, fear-inspiring, fearful, fearing, fearsome, frightened, frightening, frightful, goosy, hair-raising, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrifying, in fear, intimidating, jumpy, mousy, nervous, overawing, rabbity, scared, scaring, shaky, shivery, shrinking, shy, skittery, skittish, spine-chilling, spooky, startling, startlish, terrified, terrifying, timid, timorous, trembling, tremulous, trepidant, trigger-happy
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