scaresome

scaresome

English

Etymology

From scare +‎ -some.

Adjective

scaresome (comparative more scaresome, superlative most scaresome)

1. Characterised or marked by scariness; frightful
   • 2008, Dennis O'Driscoll, ‎Seamus Heaney, Stepping Stones:

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

   • 2011, Bernie McGill, The Butterfly Cabinet:

     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.

   • 2015, Spence-Jones, Henry, The Pulpit Commentary, Volume 6:

     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.