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| Main Entry: | scary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | frightening, terrifying |
| Synonyms: | alarming, chilling, creepy, eerie, hair-raising, hairy*, intimidating, shocking, spooky, bloodcurdling, horrendous, horrifying, spine-chilling, unnerving |
| Antonyms: | calming, encouraging, soothing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | eerie |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | spooky |
| Synonyms: | awesome, bizarre, creepy, fantastic, fearful, frightening, ghostly, mysterious, scary, spectral, strange, supernatural, superstitious, uncanny, unearthly, weird, crawly |
| Antonyms: | funny, normal, ordinary, silly |
| Main Entry: | ghostly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | spooky |
| Synonyms: | cadaverous, divine, eerie, ghastly, haunted, holy, illusory, insubstantial, pale, phantom, scary, shadowy, spectral, spiritual, supernatural, uncanny, unearthly, wan, weird, apparitional, corpselike, deathlike, eidolic, ghostlike, phantasmal, vampiric, wraithlike, wraithy |
| Main Entry: | horrible/horrendous/horrid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | repulsive, very unpleasant |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, abominable, appalling, awful, beastly, cruel, detestable, disagreeable, disgusting, dreadful, eerie, execrable, fearful, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, gross*, gruesome, heinous, hideous, loathsome, lousy, lurid, mean, nasty, obnoxious, offensive, repellent, revolting, scandalous, scary, shameful, shocking, terrible, terrifying, ungodly, unholy, unkind |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, delightful, magnificent, pleasant, pleasing, wonderful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | macabre |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | eerie; deathlike |
| Synonyms: | cadaverous, deathly, dreadful, frightening, frightful, ghastly, ghostly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, gruesome, hideous, horrible, lurid, morbid, offensive, scary, spooky, terrible, unearthly, weird, horrid, spookish |
| Notes: | macabre means shockingly repellent or inspiring horror; bizarre means odd or unusual |
| Antonyms: | common, living, normal |
| Main Entry: | nightmarish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | frightening |
| Synonyms: | alarming, awful, chilling, creepy, dire, direful, disquieting, dreadful, eerie, fearful, ghastly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, hair-raising, hellish, horrible, macabre, morbid, ominous, scary, spooky, terrible, terrifying, fearsome, horrid, horrifying, petrifying, traumatic, unnerving |
| Main Entry: | spectral |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ghostly |
| Synonyms: | eerie, haunted, illusory, phantom, scary, shadowy, spiritual, spooky, supernatural, apparitional, phantasmal |
| Main Entry: | spooky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | frightening |
| Synonyms: | chilling, creepy, eerie, ghostly, mysterious, ominous, scary, supernatural, uncanny, unearthly, weird, spine-chilling |
| Antonyms: | natural, unfrightening |
| Main Entry: | uncanny |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very strange, unusual |
| Synonyms: | astonishing, astounding, creepy, devilish, eerie, exceptional, extraordinary, fantastic, ghostly, ghoulish, incredible, inspired, magical, miraculous, mysterious, preternatural, prodigious, queer, remarkable, scary, secret, singular, spooky, superhuman, supernatural, unearthly, unheard-of, unnatural, weird, inexplainable, mystifying, supernormal, supranormal |
| Antonyms: | common, earthly, natural, usual |
| Main Entry: | unearthly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | supernatural; very strange |
| Synonyms: | abnormal, absurd, appalling, devilish, eerie, ethereal, extraordinary, fiendish, frightening, funereal, ghastly, ghostly, ghoulish, hair-raising, haunted, heavenly, miraculous, nightmarish, phantom, preternatural, ridiculous, scary, sepulchral, spectral, spooky*, sublime, superhuman, uncanny, ungodly, unholy, unreasonable, weird, demoniac, hyperphysical, not of this world |
| Antonyms: | earthly, natural, physical |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | horrible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unpleasant |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, abominable, appalling, awful, beastly, cruel, detestable, disagreeable, disgusting, dreadful, eerie, execrable, fairy, fearful, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, heinous, hideous, loathsome, lousy, lurid, mean, nasty, obnoxious, offensive, repellent, repulsive, revolting, scandalous, scary, shameful, shocking, terrible, terrifying, ungodly, unholy, unkind, horrendous, horrid, sickie |
| Antonyms: | pleasant |
| Main Entry: | hairy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dangerous |
| Synonyms: | chancy, difficult, hazardous, perilous, risky, scary, treacherous, uncertain, unhealthy, unsound, wicked, jeopardous |
| Antonyms: | calm, safe |
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