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Scarier vs Scarer - What's the difference?

scarier | scarer |

As an adjective scarier

is comparative of scary.

As a noun scarer is

one who, or that which, scares.

scarier

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (scary)
  • Anagrams

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    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.
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    scarer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who, or that which, scares.
  • * 1894 , William Crooke, An Introduction to the Popular Religion and Folklore of Northern India
  • 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...
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 21, author=, title=Letters, work=New York Times citation
  • , 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. }}

    Synonyms

    * frightener

    Anagrams

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