scaresomeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (rhotic) enPR: skâr'səm, IPA: /ˈskeɹsəm/
• (Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA: /ˈskɛɹsəm/
• (non-rhotic) IPA: /ˈskɛəsəm/
• 韻: -ɛə(ɹ)səm
• ハイフネーション: scare‧some

形容詞

scaresome (comparative more scaresome, superlative most scaresome)

1. Characterised or marked by scariness; frightful.
   • 2008, Dennis O'Driscoll, Seamus Heaney, Stepping Stones:

     But I do remember a scaresome fight at the end of Broagh Road, just a couple of hundred yards from our house in Mossbawn.

   • 2011, Bernie McGill, The Butterfly Cabinet:

     She looked like a raven about to take flight, half bird, half woman, like she'd sprouted wings from her shoulders. I couldn't see where her arms ended and the cape began. It was stunning and scaresome all at the same time.

   • 2015, Spence-Jones, Henry, The Pulpit Commentary, Volume 6:

     A traveler, in journeying through that waste and howling and terrible wilderness, would meet with many a rough road, many a rugged way, many a rocky ascent, many an uncultivated waste, many a harsh sound, many a scaresome sight, many a tangled spot, many a thorny place, many a toil, and many a trial.

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