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scareless

scareless adjective: devoid of scares; not at all frightening.

Adjective

scareless (comparative more scareless, superlative most scareless)

  1. Devoid of scares; not at all frightening.
    • As directed by Richard Loncraine, "The Haunting of Julia" is virtually scareless, and the camera angles provide advance tipoffs to the few frightening episodes that punctuate the dull ones.1984, The New York Times Film Reviews, page 62
    • Zero brains for this tasteless, classless, humorless, scareless pile of wasted film.2016, Andy McKinney, A Gross of Zombies: Reviews of 144 Zombie Movies

Forms of scareless

comparativemore scareless
superlativemost scareless

Origin of scareless

From scare + -less.

Questions about scareless

What does scareless mean?
Scareless means devoid of scares; not at all frightening.
What part of speech is scareless?
Scareless is an adjective.

Words near scareless in the dictionary

  1. scareful
  2. scarehead
  3. scareheaded
  4. scareheading
  5. scareheads
  6. scareless
  7. scarelore
  8. scaremonger
  9. scaremongered
  10. scaremongerer
  11. scaremongerers

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