Haunting vs Scary - What's the difference?
haunting | scary |
A particular instance of haunting; a ghostly habitation.
Causing or able to cause fright
(US, colloquial, dated) Subject to sudden alarm; nervous, jumpy.
* 1916 , Texas Department of Agriculture, Bulletin (issues 47-57), page 150:
Barren land having only a thin coat of grass.
As nouns the difference between haunting and scary
is that haunting is a particular instance of haunting; a ghostly habitation while scary is barren land having only a thin coat of grass.As a verb haunting
is .As an adjective scary is
causing or able to cause fright.haunting
English
Verb
(head)- A ghost was haunting the house.
Noun
(en noun)- During the haunting , strange voices were heard and objects flew off tables.
Anagrams
*scary
English
Etymology 1
Adjective
(er)- The tiger's jaws were scary.
- She was hiding behind her pillow during the scary parts of the film.
- (Whittier)
- 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.