Scary words that start with l

1 causing fear

  • a scary movie that gave the child nightmares for weeks afterwards

  • alarming,
  • dire,
  • direful,
  • dread,
  • dreadful,
  • fearful,
  • fearsome,
  • forbidding,
  • formidable,
  • frightening,
  • frightful,
  • ghastly,
  • hair-raising,
  • horrendous,
  • horrible,
  • horrifying,
  • intimidating,
  • redoubtable,
  • shocking,
  • spine-chilling,
  • terrible,
  • terrifying

  • daunting,
  • demoralizing,
  • disconcerting,
  • discouraging,
  • dismaying,
  • disquieting,
  • distressing,
  • disturbing,
  • perturbing,
  • startling,
  • threatening,
  • troubling,
  • trying,
  • unnerving
  • bone-chilling,
  • creepy,
  • eerie
  • (also eery),
  • weird
  • appalling,
  • atrocious,
  • awful,
  • grisly,
  • gruesome
  • (also grewsome),
  • hideous,
  • horrid,
  • macabre,
  • monstrous,
  • nightmarish

  • calming,
  • comforting,
  • consoling,
  • inviting,
  • lulling,
  • pacifying,
  • quieting,
  • reassuring,
  • relaxing,
  • soothing,
  • tranquilizing
  • (also tranquillizing)
  • nonintimidating,
  • nonthreatening

2 easily frightened

  • a scary horse who spooked and kicked at its own shadow

  • chicken,
  • chickenhearted,
  • chicken-livered,
  • cowardly,
  • craven,
  • dastardly,
  • gutless,
  • lily-livered,
  • milk-livered
  • [archaic],
  • poltroon,
  • pusillanimous,
  • spineless,
  • unheroic,
  • yellow
  • jittery,
  • jumpy,
  • spooky
  • anxious,
  • apprehensive,
  • nervous
  • afraid,
  • alarmed,
  • horrified,
  • panicked,
  • panicky,
  • panic-stricken,
  • scared,
  • shocked,
  • spooked,
  • startled,
  • terrified,
  • terrorized,
  • unnerved

  • brave,
  • courageous,
  • dauntless,
  • doughty,
  • fearless,
  • gallant,
  • greathearted,
  • heroic
  • (also heroical),
  • intrepid,
  • lionhearted,
  • stalwart,
  • stout,
  • stouthearted,
  • undaunted,
  • valiant,
  • valorous
  • assured,
  • confident,
  • self-assured,
  • self-confident
  • determined,
  • firm,
  • game,
  • plucky,
  • resolute,
  • undeterred,
  • unflinching,
  • unswerving
  • mettlesome,
  • spirited,
  • spunky

3 filled with fear or dread

  • I got a little scary when I heard the noise in the basement

  • affrighted,
  • afraid,
  • aghast,
  • alarmed,
  • fearful,
  • frightened,
  • horrified,
  • horror-struck,
  • hysterical
  • (also hysteric),
  • scared,
  • shocked,
  • spooked,
  • terrified,
  • terrorized

  • chicken,
  • fainthearted,
  • fearsome,
  • shrinking,
  • shy,
  • timid,
  • timorous,
  • tremulant,
  • tremulous
  • agitated,
  • anxious,
  • apprehensive,
  • disconcerted,
  • disquieted,
  • disturbed,
  • funky,
  • jittery,
  • jumpy,
  • nervous,
  • panicked,
  • panicky,
  • panic-stricken,
  • perturbed,
  • skittish,
  • uneasy,
  • upset,
  • worried
  • phobic
  • appalled,
  • dismayed,
  • startled
  • cowed,
  • daunted,
  • intimidated,
  • unnerved
  • coward,
  • cowardly,
  • craven,
  • gutless,
  • lily-livered,
  • pusillanimous
  • careful,
  • cautious,
  • heedful,
  • prudent,
  • unadventurous,
  • wary

  • adventuresome,
  • adventurous,
  • audacious,
  • bold,
  • daredevil,
  • daring,
  • dashing,
  • gutsy,
  • plucky,
  • spirited,
  • spunky,
  • venturesome,
  • venturous
  • brave,
  • courageous,
  • gallant,
  • hardy,
  • heroic
  • (also heroical),
  • intrepid,
  • lionhearted,
  • manful,
  • stalwart,
  • stout,
  • stouthearted,
  • valiant,
  • valorous
  • assured,
  • collected,
  • composed,
  • confident,
  • cool,
  • sanguine,
  • sure,
  • unperturbed
  • dauntless,
  • resolute,
  • undaunted

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Scary words that start with l

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What is the synonym of word L?

Synonym Words With L
lament
mourn, grieve
legible
readable, clear
lenient
lax, unrestrained, easy
listless
lethargic, tired
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What are some words for scary?

alarming,.
direful,.
dread,.
dreadful,.
fearful,.
fearsome,.
forbidding,.

What's a creepy word?

awful, disgusting, disturbing, eerie, frightening, ghoulish, macabre, menacing, ominous, sinister, terrifying, weird, direful, dreadful, gruesome, hair-raising, horrible, itching, itchy, nightmarish.

What words go with Halloween?

haunted house, trick-or-treat, jack-o'-lantern, Halloween, October, pumpkin, afraid, evil, eerie, gruesome, spooky, broomstick, witch, ghost, nightmare, cauldron, frightening, scary, darkness, horrify, disguise, petrify, terrify, tombstone, cobweb, cemetery, ghoulish, hocus pocus, dead, haunt, howl, dress-up, candy, ...