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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
scary
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
pretty
▪ To tell the truth, it's pretty scary.
▪ The stars and the street lights stopped it being too dark, but it was still pretty scary.
really
▪ It's presenting to my superiors that I find really scary.
▪ What if you were alone in the middle of the night and something really scary or weird happened?
▪ I remember before then when it was really scary.
▪ The Rolling Stones: Go as really, really scary old guys.
so
▪ Compared with that, is taking the final step with me so scary?
▪ I had been a child alone, but I learned that being a woman alone was not so scary.
too
▪ It looks set to be a monster success, even though some youngsters at last night's premiere said it was too scary.
▪ For many, it may be too scary.
very
▪ Female speaker Walking over that causeway is very scary.
▪ It is very scary to think that when my time comes to be cared for...
▪ And that was very scary, because it was so much safer not to want anything at all, where Julius was concerned.
▪ Needless to say, it was a very scary time for me.
■ NOUN
thing
▪ The scary thing is that I hardly know him.
▪ Telling children about scary things, and then showing them that there are happy endings, soothes their anxieties.
▪ He says this is scariest thing I've ever done in my life.
▪ Love is a scary thing for me.
▪ Besides, Digby had even scarier things to consider.
▪ The problem that develops is-one of the scary things is-this job demands that you rely on somebody else to get it done.
thought
▪ They have plenty of room to grow some more, a scary thought.
▪ It was a scary thought at first.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a big scary monster
▪ I don't regret my decision to start a new life, in a new country. It's scary, but it's also really exciting.
▪ I had a really scary dream last night.
▪ She didn't like the film. It was too scary for her.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It really was scary - I kid you not.
▪ The stars and the street lights stopped it being too dark, but it was still pretty scary.
▪ What our deep-seated fears say, of course, can be even scarier than the stories themselves.
▪ While this may seem scary, it is the only way to get her stepfather to stop what he is doing.
▪ Yet the commercial is based on speculation that is indeed scary but not unjustified.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scary

Scary \Scar"y\, a. [From Scare.]

  1. Subject to sudden alarm. [Colloq. U. S.]
    --Whittier.

  2. Causing fright; alarming. [Colloq. U. S.]

Scary

Scary \Sca"ry\, n. [Prov. E. scare scraggy.] Barren land having only a thin coat of grass. [Prov. Eng.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
scary

also scarey, "terrifying," 1580s, from scare (n.) + -y (2). Meaning "easily frightened, subject to scares" is from 1800. Related: Scarier; scariest.

Wiktionary
scary

Etymology 1 a. 1 Causing or able to cause fright 2 (context US colloquial dated English) Subject to sudden alarm; nervous, jumpy. Etymology 2

n. Barren land having only a thin coat of grass.

WordNet
scary

  1. adj. so scary as to cause chills and shudders; "the most terrible and shuddery...tales of murder and revenge" [syn: chilling, scarey, shivery, shuddery]

  2. [also: scariest, scarier]

Wikipedia
Scary (Middle-earth)
  1. redirect Shire (Middle-earth)#Eastfarthing
Scary

Scary may refer to:

  • Scary, West Virginia, U.S.
  • Scary, in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, a village in the Shire
  • "Scary", a song by Britney Spears from Femme Fatale

People:

  • Scary Spice, Mel B, English singer, member of Spice Girls
  • Scary Sherri, Sherri Martel, American professional wrestler
  • The Scary Guy, American motivational speaker
  • Little Miss Scary, a Little Miss character

Usage examples of "scary".

He was careful not to use scary military terms such as amplification, lethal chain of transmission, crash and bleed, or major pucker factor.

Only yesterday, after she had begun cautiously to hope that no one was left in Lodi but her, she had seen a gross and drunken man, a hippie man in a T-shirt that said I GAVE UP SEX AND DRINKING AND IT WAS THE SCARIEST 20 MINUTES OF MY LIFE, wandering up the street with a bottle of whiskey in his hand.

But I can see how a gal raised on blander batnahas stuffed with a sort of gray-green mush might find your hot tamales a scary surprise.

Either someone from Malik had contacted her mother on Earth or, scarier yet, Marion Drysdale had traveled to Lowth and back again.

Just before they got to the first of the wounded, Scriber said something more, the scariest words of the afternoon.

When the Menace shows up, I want to be out there already between them and our planets, with all the warranter ships and the TCA fleet, and I want to be too scary for anybody to attack us.

This somatic outing borders on metamorphosis: the glands are like walnuts, and the bird tuberculosis has an almost Ovidian flavor to it, in addition to a scary sense of flight and flux, so that even the dead body in the casket is disturbingly active and on the move, a potent agent of transmission.

The tiger imagery was certainly scarier than bats, and so were the ravaged bodies I had seen.

In areas like this, the twilight daughters could be scarier and more dangerous than most of the more obvious monsters in the Nightside.

I can do illusions and that most of my illusions are nice and very easy to look at but that there are a few I can do that are scarier than all hell.

The members of this particular berserker horde were all the scarier, because they cunningly remained just out of visibility, concealing their shapes and sizes from him.

Fulla brought out some frightful beasts, they said, but Fulla herself was scarier still.

There is no scarier feeling than the realization that you have no idea what your characters are going to do next.

Scary as this place is, and for all his weird talk, Dane is the beautifulest man I ever saw.

Forests were indicated by irregular, green blobs, except for one marked out in scary black.