Scary vs Cute - What's the difference?
scary | cute |
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.
Possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals; fair, dainty, round, and soft physical features, disproportionately large eyes and head, playfulness, fragility, helplessness, curiosity or shyness, innocence, affectionate behavior.
Generally, attractive or pleasing, especially in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way.
Affected]] or contrived to charm; [[mince#Verb, mincingly clever; precious; cutesy.
Mentally keen or discerning; clever; shrewd; see (acute).
As adjectives the difference between scary and cute
is that scary is causing or able to cause fright while cute is possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals; fair, dainty, round, and soft physical features, disproportionately large eyes and head, playfulness, fragility, helplessness, curiosity or shyness, innocence, affectionate behavior.As a noun scary
is barren land having only a thin coat of grass.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
* *cute
English
(wikipedia)Adjective
(er)- Our reaction to cute attributes is understood as the way nature ensures mammals care for their young.
- Let's go to the mall and look for cute girls.
- Emma is so damn cute .
- The actor's performance was too cute for me. All that mugging to the audience killed the humor.
- Don't get cute with me, boy!
- Cute trick, but can you do it consistently?