Synonyms for scary
ˈskɛər isca·ry

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1. scaryadjective

   Synonyms:
   frightening

2. scaryadjective

   Causing, or able to cause, fright

   Synonyms:
   frightening

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1. chilling, scarey, scary, shivery, shudderyadjective

   provoking fear terror

   "a scary movie"; "the most terrible and shuddery...tales of murder and revenge"

   Synonyms:
   shivery, chilling, scarey, shuddery

   Antonyms:
   unalarming

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1. scaryadjective

   Synonyms:
   timid, apprehensive, alarming, frightful

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1. List of paraphrases for "scary":

   creepy, frightening, spooky, scared, afraid, terrifying, freaky, horror, frightful, frightened, horrifying, nerve-racking, fearsome, chilling, hairy, terrible, appalling, fearful, awful

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1. Diana Konstantynova:

   During the negotiations, the city administration and children’s educational institutions where my children studied were destroyed, it’s still very scary, every day we get messages from home that there is shooting and bombing.

2. Maddison Tenney:

   We wanted this experience for both those on our side and those who are against us to understand that it wasn't that scary and that it was family friendly, and that just( as) they have their free speech, we have ours and both of us can coexist in the same space.

3. Comedian Jimmy Fallon:

   It’s scary, it’s fun, it’s exciting, do you know the ‘Harry Potter’ rides? It’s like that, except instead of Harry Potter, it’s me. Instead of Hogwarts, it’s New York City.

4. Van Der Beek:

   Wrecked. Devastated. In shock. Thats how were feeling right now after the soul we thought were going to welcome into our family in April... has taken a short cut to whatever lies beyond this life, weve been through this before, but never this late in the pregnancy, and never accompanied by such a scary, horrific threat to@vanderkimberlyand her well-being.

5. Carey Marx:

   I tried to do material about the heart attack and I think if you do material like that badly you just embarrass the audience, and I was also was genuinely afraid of hecklers, and that's when comedy becomes frightening. You should never be afraid of the heckler. When you feel your heart racing and you're aware that you could go down at any moment then it's pretty scary.