scaresome

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English

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Etymology

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From scare +‎ -some.

Adjective

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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.