Scarerific: adjective. To be excessively
scary in a positive way. For something to be truly scarerific it mustn’t be
scary enough to be defined as scareble (excessively scary in a negative way),
but must be scary enough to avoid being un-scary (with an excessive lack of
scariness). Scarerific was originally used as a term in television back in 2005
to give a name to the ideal level of scariness writers were meant to make a horror
show. Eventually enough writers thought that making a show scary would imply
that they were supposed to make it scarerific unless stated otherwise and the
word was seen as redundant, by the end of the year no one seemed to remember
using the word at all. If you remember using this word in 2005 then feel free
to post a comment on this post, unless you are afraid of not fitting in with
all the people who don’t remember or won’t admit remembering the use of this
word in 2005.
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