Definitions for scary

scary scar·y

Spelling: [skair-ee]
IPA: /ˈskɛər i/

Scary is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 60 anagrams from letters in scary (acrsy).

Definitions for scary

adjective

  1. causing fright or alarm.
  2. easily frightened; timid.

Origin of scary

First recorded in 1575-85; scare + -y1

Examples for scary

The point of publishing all the scary stats is not to dissuade people from being professional musicians.

But piracy in the far future, when presented as vividly as in this story, can be scary stuff.

Mrs. Cow's ten times as big as Katie Cottontail, but she's just as scary.

Hearing that is a lot easier than hearing something else, but it is not less, well, humiliating and scary, I guess.

It took more than that, although he was a scary little chap.

Why are “threats,” unlike other scary speech, outside the protection of the First Amendment?

They said they had heard that "soldiers had come to catch we," and "we were scary."

Being in an indie band is running a never-ending, rewarding, scary, low-margin small business.

And the scenery-wavery stuff and the warped Park-sounds were scary too.

“I thought it created an effective, scary scene especially for the young viewers,” Davis says.

Word Value for scary
Scrable

10

Words with friends

10

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