Meaning

1 senses

  1. (informal)An unconfirmed or unstudied variant or strain of COVID-19 that causes widespread panic.

    Public health officials derided the X-MPLE strain as a "scariant" last night.

Origin

Blend of scare + variant.

Blend of scare + variant.

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Forms

plural: scariants
Singularscariant
Pluralscariants

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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