scaresome
/ˈskeɹsəm/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characterised or marked by scariness; frightful.
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
From scare + -some.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more scaresome (comparative)
most scaresome (superlative)