eerie, sinister, ghostly, uncanny, weird, unearthly, mysterious. frightening, spine-chilling, hair-raising, scaring, terrifying, petrifying, chilling. informal creepy, scary, spine-tingling.
Herein, what are some scary adjectives?
adjective
- frightening, scaring, hair-raising, terrifying, petrifying, spine-chilling, blood-curdling, chilling, horrifying, alarming, appalling, daunting, formidable, fearsome, nerve-racking, unnerving.
- eerie, sinister.
- informal creepy, spine-tingling, spooky, hairy.
In this regard, what does spooky mean in slang? spooky? Sure, “spook” can refer to a ghost. It can refer to a spy. But as many of us know, it’s also, sometimes, a racial slur for black people. One of our Ask Code Switch readers wrote in to ask about the etiquette of using words like spook and spooky.
Similarly one may ask, what is the synonym of scary?
bone-chilling, creepy, eerie. (also eery), weird.