Emotions

Synonyms for scary

The synonym for scary recorded in this bank is chilling, in the sense "provoking fear or terror". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for scary

chillingadjective, in the sense "provoking fear or terror"

That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and scary carries one sense so far.

The senseadjectiveTier 3, RidgelineEmotions

provoking fear or terror

A scary movie.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

chilling

Same sentence, swapped: A chilling movie.

Close but different

Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.

shy
frightened
nervous

Where scary turns up in the game

scary is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play scary

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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