screamy
- adjective
- /ˈskriːmi/
:
escalofriante
- She prefers suspenseful movies over screamy horror films with lots of jump scares.
Examples
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The director added several screamy moments to make the audience jump in their seats.
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That scene was so screamy it made me jump!
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The haunted house was filled with screamy special effects that startled everyone.
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The screamy movie scared the audience.
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The new horror film was filled with screamy scenes that made everyone in the theater jump.
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In the latest episode, the screamy soundtrack heightened the tension during the scary moments.
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The trail was decorated with screamy masks that frightened all the visitors at the haunted attraction.
Synonyms
763
1.0
Causing fear or making you feel afraid
209
5.3
Making people feel very afraid
179
5.5
Causing great fear or shock
96
3.2
Strange and frightening in a way that makes you feel nervous, like a ghost
95
4.5
Makes people feel very afraid and shocked
6
5.1
Very scary and likely to make someone feel afraid
1
6.8
Causing so much fear that a person cannot move
1
8.2
Making you feel very afraid and shocked
1
8.5
That makes you shiver with fear
Making someone feel very afraid
Making people feel afraid
Causing strong fear or disgust that makes you shiver
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Screamy comes from the word scream ('to shout in fear') plus the ending -y meaning 'full of' or 'like', so a screamy scene is one that is likely to make people scream.