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How to pronounce scary in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms chilling, shivery, shuddery
Derivation scare


a scary movie.

Examples of scary

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All three were involved in a scary crash on the frontstretch with 15 laps to go.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
Many of us feel threatened by a scary financial future, terrorism or other woes.
From the courier-journal.com
Living day by day, not knowing if it's going to be your time or not, it's scary.
From the tennessean.com
Scary, ugly things which have no basic hygiene and probably eat their own young.
From the hecklerspray.com
Sports take us away from the scary headlines that cackle in the news even today.
From the timesunion.com
Sending a child who suffers from severe food allergies doesn't have to be scary.
From the ocregister.com
When did you develop the belief that silence was safe, and speech was too scary?
From the guardian.co.uk
I find Peter Pan and Wendy far more scary than anything written by Stephen King.
From the guardian.co.uk
He is fast, has great hands and is scary with the ball, but he needs refinement.
From the usatoday.com
More examples
  • Chilling: provoking fear terror; "a scary movie"; "the most terrible and shuddery...tales of murder and revenge"
  • (scare) frighten: cause fear in; "The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me"; "Ghosts could never affright her"
  • (scare) panic: sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events; "panic in the stock market"; "a war scare"; "a bomb scare led them to evacuate the building"
  • (scare) a sudden attack of fear
  • (scare) daunt: cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal"
  • (scared) frightened: made afraid; "the frightened child cowered in the corner"; "too shocked and scared to move"
  • (scarily) frighteningly: in an alarming manner; "the disturbing thing about the Minister's behavior is that far from being artificial, it too often rings frighteningly true"
  • The Shire is a region of J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth, described in The Lord of the Rings and other works. The Shire refers to an area settled exclusively by Hobbits and largely removed from the goings-on in the rest of Middle-earth. ...
  • (Scared!) Scared! (stylized as SCARED!), formerly titled as Scared on Staten Island!, is an American paranormal public-access television series that premiered on September 12, 2002 on Staten Island Community Television. ...