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Etymology 1

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Fromscare +‎-y.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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scary (comparativescarier,superlativescariest)

  1. (now chiefly informal) Causingfear oranxiety
    Synonyms:frightening,hair-raising,petrifying,terrifying;see alsoThesaurus:frightening
    The tiger's jaws werescary.
    She was hiding behind her pillow during thescary parts of the film.
    • 1884 December 10,Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter 29, inThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London:Chatto & Windus, […],→OCLC:
      Well, we swarmed along down the river road, just carrying on like wildcats; and to make it morescary the sky was darking up, and the lightning beginning to wink and flitter, and the wind to shiver amongst the leaves.
    • 1982,Anne Tyler, chapter 2, inDinner at the Homesick Restaurant‎[1], New York: Ivy Books, published1992, page70:
      “[…] Howscary it is to know that everyone I love depends on me! I’m afraid I’ll do something wrong.”
    • 2007 September 2, Terrence Rafferty, “Technicolor Dreamboat”, inThe New York Times‎[2]:
      Age notwithstanding, none of these men seem interested in sailing to Byzantium anyway: Justine’s got them all on the last stage to someplace wilder andscarier, where Yeats’s “monuments of unaging intellect” are thoroughly beside the point.
    • 2020, Lesley L. Smith,A Jack For All Seasons, page45:
      The biggest,scariest, scarriest man in the room said, “It's about time, Jones.”
  2. (informal) Uncannilystriking orsurprising.
    Linda changed her hair, and it’sscary how much she looks like her mother.
  3. (US, colloquial) Subject to suddenalarm; easilyfrightened.
    Synonyms:nervous,jumpy
    • 1823,James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 5, inThe Pioneers‎[3], volume 2, New York: Charles Wiley, the UK edition of the same year hasscary(p. 262)[4], page77:
      “Whist! whist!” said Natty, in a low voice, on hearing a slight sound made by Elizabeth, in bending over the side of the canoe, in eager curiosity; “’tis asceary animal, and it’s a far stroke for a spear.[…]”
    • 1867,John Greenleaf Whittier,The Tent on the Beach, and Other Poems‎[5], Boston: Ticknor and Fields, The Wreck of Rivermouth, page25:
      “She’s cursed,” said the skipper; “speak her fair:
      I’mscary always to see her shake
      Her wicked head, with its wild gray hair,
      And nose like a hawk, and eyes like a snake.”
    • 1916, Texas Department of Agriculture, “Bulletin”, in(Please provide the book title or journal name), numbers47-57, page150:
      And let us say to these interests that, until the Buy-It-Made-In-Texas movement co-operates with the farmers, we are going to be a littlescary of the snare.
    • 1940,Richard Wright,Native Son‎[6], book 1, London: Jonathan Cape, published1970, page10:
      The two brothers stood over the dead rat[…].
      “Please, Bigger, take ’im out,” Vera begged.
      “Aw, don’t be soscary,” Buddy said.
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Adverb

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scary (notcomparable)

  1. (informal) To a scaryextent;scarily.
    • 2010,Peter Corris,Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page117:
      At 199 centimetres and a hundred kilos going up, he wasscary big and he found work as a bouncer and enforcer[.]
    • 2020, S. Clarence Dodge,Beyond Blood: Inside the Mind of an Anesthesiologist‎[7], Xlibris Corporation:
      [T]he main reason I don't want to give her a GA is she's soscary fat!
Translations
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causing fear or anxiety

Etymology 2

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From dialectal Englishscare(“scraggy”).

Noun

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scary

  1. Barren land having only a thin coat of grass.

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