Fearful and Scary

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Fearful

Fearful adjective - Causing fear.

Usage example: the fearful roar of a lion

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Scary is a synonym for fearful in fear topic. In some cases you can use "Scary" instead an adjective "Fearful", when it comes to topics like terrible, horrid, scared.

Nearby Words: fear, fearless, fearsome, fearfully, fearlessly

Scary

Scary adjective - Causing fear.

Usage example: a scary movie that gave the child nightmares for weeks afterwards

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Fearful is a synonym for scary in fear topic. You can use "Fearful" instead an adjective "Scary", if it concerns topics such as terrible, horrid, scared.

Nearby Words: scare, scar, scared, scaring

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Dark Is Not Evil: "Rendezvous in a Dark Place" is essentially the original series' "Nothing in the Dark" flipped around: instead of being fearful of Death and needing to be convinced it isn't scary, Barbara LeMay actually finds beauty in Death... and wants to join him.

Source: Series / The Twilight Zone (1985)
Spiders Are Scary: Princess Luna somehow thinks bringing several hoof-sized beanbag spiders to life will help her score more points in the "throw the spiders on the web" game, thus making her subjects less fearful of her.

Source: Recap / My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic S2 E4 "Luna Eclipsed"

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