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Bloodcurdling vs Scary - What's the difference?

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Bloodcurdling is a related term of scary.


As adjectives the difference between bloodcurdling and scary

is that bloodcurdling is causing great horror or terror while scary is causing or able to cause fright.

As a noun scary is

barren land having only a thin coat of grass.

bloodcurdling

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Causing great horror or terror.

    • scary

    English

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Causing or able to cause fright
    • The tiger's jaws were scary.
    She was hiding behind her pillow during the scary parts of the film.
  • (US, colloquial, dated) Subject to sudden alarm; nervous, jumpy.
    • (Whittier)
  • * 1916 , Texas Department of Agriculture, Bulletin (issues 47-57), page 150:
    • And let us say to these interests that, until the Buy-It-Made-In-Texas movement co-operates with the farmers, we are going to be a little scary of the snare.
    Synonyms
    * (causing fright) frightening

    Etymology 2

    From dialectal English .

    Noun

  • Barren land having only a thin coat of grass.

    • Anagrams

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