scary

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
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
Scary \Sca"ry\, n. [Prov. E. scare scraggy.]
   Barren land having only a thin coat of grass. [Prov. Eng.]
   [1913 Webster]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Scary \Scar"y\, a. [From {Scare}.]
   1. Subject to sudden alarm. [Colloq. U. S.] --Whittier.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Causing fright; alarming. [Colloq. U. S.]
      [1913 Webster]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
59 Moby Thesaurus words for "scary":
      aghast, alarming, anxious, awing, bashful, chilling, cowardly,
      crawly, creepy, daunting, deterrent, deterring, diffident,
      disconcerting, discouraging, disheartening, dismaying, disquieting,
      eerie, fear-inspiring, fearful, fearing, fearsome, frightened,
      frightening, frightful, goosy, hair-raising, horrendous, horrible,
      horrid, horrifying, in fear, intimidating, jumpy, mousy, nervous,
      overawing, rabbity, scared, scaring, shaky, shivery, shrinking,
      shy, skittery, skittish, spine-chilling, spooky, startling,
      startlish, terrified, terrifying, timid, timorous, trembling,
      tremulous, trepidant, trigger-happy
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