From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
scary
adj 1: provoking fear terror; "a scary movie"; "the most
terrible and shuddery...tales of murder and revenge"
[syn: chilling, scarey, scary, shivery,
shuddery]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Scary \Sca"ry\, n. [Prov. E. scare scraggy.]
Barren land having only a thin coat of grass. [Prov. Eng.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Scary \Scar"y\, a. [From Scare.]
1. Subject to sudden alarm. [Colloq. U. S.] --Whittier.
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2. Causing fright; alarming. [Colloq. U. S.]
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