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. Jennifer Lincoln:

   It's really scary. We have to tell the patients,' we'll put you on a schedule, but we don't know what tomorrow holds.' And as a patient, that is absolutely terrifying to hear, as a provider, that's devastating. Turn somebody away ? That's awful. Say' I can't take care of you because the government says I can't' ? When I know that this is safe and that your bodily autonomy is first and foremost ?

2. Denis Shapovalov:

   As a player, it's kind of scary coming to this city, seeing how the players are collapsing, seeing that fit players are needing inhalers to play tennis, and it's two out of three sets( in qualifying), it's not even three-out-of-fives yet.

3. Fabrice Muamba:

   It brought back stuff that I have put down in me, this emotion that’s down there. To watch it from that distance and not know what was going to happen, it was scary, but credit to the medical staff. They have done an amazing job on Christian. I like how his team mates got together to protect him.

4. Toe Zaw Latt:

   You have to make the file size very small, you have to upload to a particular network to get it out of Myanmar. Then people outside will access the cloud and upload, i had to take risk on a daily basis to get internet access. You have to share [ network connection ] and you can not let them know you are uploading files, as it is very scary.

5. Amy Jackson:

   We're absolutely thrilled to have rain, i mean, we're in a really severe drought right now. It's been scary, actually, as to how low our reservoirs have gotten ... so to even have this little bit, it's great.