Meaning of scaresome | Babel Free

Definitions

Characterised or marked by scariness; frightful.

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.”

“She looked like a raven about to take flight, half bird, half woman, like she'd sprouted wings from her shoulders. I couldn't see where her arms ended and the cape began. It was stunning and scaresome all at the same time.”

“A traveler, in journeying through that waste and howling and terrible wilderness, would meet with many a rough road, many a rugged way, many a rocky ascent, many an uncultivated waste, many a harsh sound, many a scaresome sight, many a tangled spot, many a thorny place, many a toil, and many a trial.”

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