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What is the adjective for scares?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb scare which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

scary
  1. (colloquial) Causing or able to cause fright
  2. (US, colloquial) Subject to sudden alarm; nervous, jumpy.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. frightening, scaring, terrifying, petrifying, chilling, horrifying, alarming, appalling, daunting, formidable, fearsome, threatening, unnerving, eerie, dire, direful, dread, dreadful, fearful, forbidding, frightful, ghastly, horrendous, horrible, intimidating, redoubtable, shocking, sinister, terrible, bloodcurdling, creepy, menacing, pulse-pounding, startling, worrying, shivery, shuddery, spooky, hairy, blood-curdling, hair-raising, nerve-racking, spine-chilling, spine-tingling, horrid, grim, awful, horrific, macabre, gruesome … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “I'm not sure what it was, but it was a scary looking beast.”
      “He's a scary sort, so don't make any sudden loud noises.”
      “I was scary after I saw something mysterious move in the darkness.”
scarisome
  1. Characterised or marked by scariness; frightening
scaresome
  1. Characterised or marked by scariness; frightful
  2. Examples:
      3. “But I do remember a scaresome fight at the end of Broagh Road, just a couple of hundred yards from our house in Mossbawn.”
scared
  1. Feeling fear; afraid, frightened.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. frightened, afraid, fearful, nervous, panicky, agitated, alarmed, worried, intimidated, terrified, petrified, horrified, panic-stricken, scared stiff, frightened out of your wits, scared out of your wits, scared witless, frightened to death, scared to death, terror-stricken, terror-struck, horror-stricken, horror-struck, frantic, hysterical, beside oneself, with your heart in your mouth, shaking in one's shoes, shaking like a leaf, shaky, feart, in a cold sweat, in a funk, in a blue funk, jumpy, jittery, anxious, frozen, funky, startled, timorous, windy, spooked, aghast, apprehensive, spineless, tremulous, bricking oneself, unnerved, frit … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “I'm not scared of the dark, just dimly discomforted.”
scarysome
  1. Alternative form of scarisome
  2. Examples:
      3. “I guess He wanted to spare me of the scarysome details or maybe God was not in the mood to repeat what has already been known and documented over the ages.”
scareable
  1. Capable of being scared.
scarey
  1. Dated form of scary.
  2. Examples:
      3. “Is it not lack of accurate knowledge that makes the average gas man scarey of the bugaboo High Bill Complaint?”
      “This past week's entries include a tiled gas station, a scarey name, and a big fish sculpture.”
      “She was so grateful for her treatment at Middlesbrough's James Cook Hospital, she did a scarey bungee jump to swell its funds.”
scareder
  1. (colloquial) comparative form of scared: more scared
  2. Examples:
      3. “Cap'n Eb says he never see a fellow seem scareder than cack did when he see Ketury a-standin' there.”
scaredest
  1. (colloquial) superlative form of scared: most scared
scarier
  1. comparative form of scary: more scary
  2. Synonyms:
      3. eerier, direr, dreader, fearfuller, ghastlier, horribler, terribler, creepier, shiverier, spookier, hairier, more frightening, more terrifying, more chilling, more horrifying, more alarming, more appalling, more daunting, more formidable, more fearsome, more threatening, more direful, more dreadful, more forbidding, more frightful, more horrendous, more intimidating, more redoubtable, more sinister, more bloodcurdling, more menacing, more startling, more worrying, more shuddery, more hair-raising, more nerve-racking, more spine-chilling, more spine-tingling, mousier, timider, shier, more timorous, more tremulous, more skittish, more fainthearted, more scared, more terrified, more frightened, more afraid, more horrified … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “We started with an appetizer of duck ravioli which sounds scarier than it was.”
      “In this film the characters are more grown-up and it's that bit scarier too.”
      “Yes, I am talking about Hallowe'en, which is creeping ghoulishly closer and which seems to get bigger and scarier each year.”
scariest
  1. superlative form of scary: most scary
  2. Synonyms:
      3. eeriest, direst, dreadest, fearfullest, ghastliest, horriblest, terriblest, creepiest, shiveriest, spookiest, hairiest, most frightening, most terrifying, most chilling, most horrifying, most alarming, most appalling, most daunting, most formidable, most fearsome, most threatening, most direful, most dreadful, most forbidding, most frightful, most horrendous, most intimidating, most redoubtable, most sinister, most bloodcurdling, most menacing, most startling, most worrying, most shuddery, most hair-raising, most nerve-racking, most spine-chilling, most spine-tingling, mousiest, timidest, shiest, most timorous, most tremulous, most skittish, most fainthearted, most scared, most terrified, most frightened, most afraid, most horrified … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “One of the scariest problems in golf is when the ball crazily turns to either the right or left.”
      “A solid sound design as well as shadowy lighting achieve the scariest effects of the film.”
      “I'm not sure which memory is scariest, the first flash of realisation, or the instant of thrill.”
scaring
  1. present participle of scare
  2. Synonyms:
      3. frightening, panicking, terrifying, petrifying, startling, alarming, shocking, appalling, horrifying, intimidating, daunting, unnerving, scarifying, affrighting, dismaying, frighting, spooking, terrorising, terrorizing, filling with fear, frightening someone out of their wits, frightening the life out of, frightening the living daylights out of, frightening to death, giving a turn, giving someone a fright, giving someone goose pimples, giving someone the heebie-jeebies, making afraid, making fearful, making jump, making nervous, making someone jump out of their skin, making someone's hair stand on end, making someone shake in their shoes, putting the fear of God into, putting the wind up, scaring someone out of their wits, scaring stiff, scaring the bejesus out of, scaring the hell out of, scaring the life out of, scaring the living daylights out of, scaring the pants off, scaring to death, scaring witless, sending into a cold sweat, striking terror into, throwing into a blue funk, throwing into a panic … more
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