Meaning

3 senses
  1. (informal)Causing fear or anxiety

    The tiger's jaws were scary.

    She was hiding behind her pillow during the scary parts of the film.

    schrecklich, furchterregend, beängstigend

    стра́шныйstrášnyj, ужа́сныйužásnyj

    страшни́йstrašnýj, жахли́вийžaxlývyj

    provoking fear or terror

  2. (informal)Uncannily striking or surprising.

    Linda changed her hair, and it’s scary how much she looks like her mother.

  3. (US, colloquial)Subject to sudden alarm; easily frightened.

Examples

455 sentences
  1. Do you want to hear a scary story?

    Хочеш почути страшну історію?

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  2. It won't be as scary as you think.

    Це не буде так страшно, як тобі здається.

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  3. Here is a scary story for you.

    Ось тобі страшна історія.

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  4. It's not that scary.

    Це не так вже й страшно.

    ruЭто не так страшно.

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  5. Tom doesn't like scary movies.

    Тому не подобаються фільми жахів.

    ruТому не нравятся фильмы ужасов.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
causing fear or anxiety:
Русский
By meaning 1
causing fear or anxiety:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
causing fear or anxiety:

Forms

scarier, scariest
Comparativescarier Lesson
Superlativescariest Lesson

regular

Synonyms

43 synonyms

Word family

9 related words

Collocations

11 patterns
  • scary movie
  • a scary movie
  • was really scary
  • be very scary
  • really scary
  • was pretty scary
  • watched a scary
  • pretty scary
  • a scary story
  • scary story
  • is a scary

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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