Scarier vs Scarer - What's the difference?
scarier | scarer |
(scary)
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.
One who, or that which, scares.
* 1894 , William Crooke, An Introduction to the Popular Religion and Folklore of Northern India
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 21, author=, title=Letters, work=New York Times
, passage=However, if a child tells a parent that someone “scares me,” it certainly doesn’t seem prudent to tell the alleged scarer what the child has confided to the parent, even if that parent “trusts” the baby sitter at this point. }}
As an adjective scarier
is comparative of scary.As a noun scarer is
one who, or that which, scares.scarier
English
Adjective
(head)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.
Synonyms
* (causing fright) frighteningEtymology 2
From dialectal English .Noun
Anagrams
* *scarer
English
Noun
(en noun)- The letter from a Raja is spotted with gold-leaf as a preservative, partly to divert the glance of fascination and partly because gold is a scarer of demons...
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