Grim vs Scary - What's the difference?
grim | scary |
dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding
rigid and unrelenting
ghastly or sinister
* 2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, “
(UK, slang) disgusting; gross
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 adjectives the difference between grim and scary
is that grim is dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding while scary is causing or able to cause fright.As a proper noun Grim
is {{surname|A=An|English}}, probably derived from Old English grimm or Old Norse grimr or grimmr.As a noun scary is
barren land having only a thin coat of grass.grim
English
Adjective
(grimmer)- Life was grim in many northern industrial towns.
- His grim determination enabled him to win.
- A grim castle overshadowed the village.
The Hunger Games''”, in ''AV Club :
- In movie terms, it suggests Paul Verhoeven in Robocop/Starship Troopers mode, an R-rated bloodbath where the grim spectacle of children murdering each other on television is bread-and-circuses for the age of reality TV, enforced by a totalitarian regime to keep the masses at bay.
- Wanna see the dead rat I found in my fridge? —Mate, that is grim !
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.