Usually means: Provoking fear, anxiety, or terror.
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  1. scary: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. scary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. scary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. scary: Collins English Dictionary
  5. scary: Vocabulary.com
  6. Scary, scary: Wordnik
  7. scary: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. scary: Wiktionary
  9. scary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. scary: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. scary: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. scary: Dictionary.com
  13. scary: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Scary (song), Scary: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Scary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. scary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. scary: Rhymezone
  18. Scary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. scary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. scary: Free Dictionary
  21. scary: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. scary: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. scary: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. scary: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. scary: Encyclopedia

(Note: See scarier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (now chiefly informal) Causing fear or anxiety
adjective:  (informal) Uncannily striking or surprising.
adjective:  (US, colloquial) Subject to sudden alarm; easily frightened.
adverb:  (informal) To a scary extent; scarily.
noun:  Barren land having only a thin coat of grass.

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