Scary and Terrible

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Scary

Scary adjective - Causing fear.
Usage example: a scary movie that gave the child nightmares for weeks afterwards
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Terrible and scary are semantically related in fear topic. In some cases you can use "Terrible" instead an adjective "Scary", when it comes to topics like horrid, awful, spooky, creepy.
Nearby Words: scare, scar, scared, scaring

Terrible

Terrible adjective - Causing fear.
Usage example: a terrible nightmare that woke me up
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Scary and terrible are semantically related in fear topic. Sometimes you can use "Scary" instead an adjective "Terrible", if it concerns topics such as horrid, awful, spooky, creepy.
Nearby Words: terribly, terrify, terror

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  • Nightmare Fuel / Film Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders: It's a terrible film and not scary during the day, but disturbing enough—in part because it's so badly made—to be rather spooky at the time of night/morning when everything is spooky.
    Source: Nightmare Fuel / Film
  • Though the person setting it up ultimately didn't do anything, and it only gets scary because Mitsuki is terrible at spying on her sister.
    Source: Kimodameshi
  • Film / Django Unchained Sure, they're meant to look scary, but Willard's wife did such a terrible job cutting out the eyeholes, it obscures everyone's vision.
    Source: Film / Django Unchained
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