All scary synonyms
scar·y
S s adjective scary
- frightening — to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
- creepy — If you say that something or someone is creepy, you mean they make you feel very nervous or frightened.
- ghoulish — strangely diabolical or cruel; monstrous: a ghoulish and questionable sense of humor.
- intimidating — to make timid; fill with fear.
- daunting — Something that is daunting makes you feel slightly afraid or worried about dealing with it.
- chilling — If you describe something as chilling, you mean it is frightening.
- fearful — causing or apt to cause fear; frightening: a fearful apparition.
- corpselike — Resembling a corpse.
- menacing — something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: Air pollution is a menace to health.
- grabber — a person or thing that grabs.
- nightmarish — resembling a nightmare, especially in being terrifying, exasperating, or the like: his nightmarish experience in a concentration camp.
- wraithlike — an apparition of a living person supposed to portend his or her death.
adj scary
- eerie — uncanny, so as to inspire superstitious fear; weird: an eerie midnight howl.
- hyperphysical — being above or beyond the physical; immaterial; supernatural.
- apparitional — of or relating to an apparition or apparitions; ghostly, spectral
- ghostly — of, characteristic of, or resembling a ghost; phantasmal; spectral.
- bloodcurdling — terrifying; horrifying
- crawly — feeling or causing a sensation like creatures crawling on one's skin
- fearsome — causing fear: a fearsome noise.
- macabre — gruesome and horrifying; ghastly; horrible.
- inexplainable — not explainable; incapable of being explained; inexplicable.
- fairier — (in folklore) one of a class of supernatural beings, generally conceived as having a diminutive human form and possessing magical powers with which they intervene in human affairs.
- demoniac — of, like, or suggestive of a demon; demonic
- hairy — covered with hair; having much hair.
- horrible — causing or tending to cause horror; shockingly dreadful: a horrible sight.