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scaresomely

scaresomely adverb: in a scaresome manner; terribly; frighteningly.

Adverb

scaresomely (comparative more scaresomely, superlative most scaresomely)

  1. In a scaresome manner; terribly; frighteningly.
    • [A] lightly moustached and heftily corseted matron, true blue and scaresomely indigenous, cried out in reply, ‘Not at all, dear. What's Irish about him? He's a British subject living in Ulster!’1990, Richard Kearney, Migrations: The Irish at Home & Abroad, Wolfhound Press, published 1976, page 23
    • The fire-dragon
      was scaresomely burnt, scorched all colours.1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 95

Forms of scaresomely

comparativemore scaresomely
superlativemost scaresomely

Origin of scaresomely

From scaresome + -ly.

Questions about scaresomely

What does scaresomely mean?
Scaresomely means in a scaresome manner; terribly; frighteningly.
What part of speech is scaresomely?
Scaresomely is an adverb.

Words near scaresomely in the dictionary

  1. scares the living daylights out of
  2. scares the pants off
  3. scares the shit out of
  4. scares up
  5. scaresome
  6. scaresomely
  7. scarest
  8. scareth
  9. scareware
  10. scarey
  11. scarf

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