Scaresome

//ˈskeɹsəm// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Characterised or marked by scariness; frightful.

    "But I do remember a scaresome fight at the end of Broagh Road, just a couple of hundred yards from our house in Mossbawn."

Example

More examples

"But I do remember a scaresome fight at the end of Broagh Road, just a couple of hundred yards from our house in Mossbawn."

Etymology

From scare + -some.

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