Scary vs Weary - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between scary and weary

is that scary is causing or able to cause fright while weary is having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued.

As a noun scary

is barren land having only a thin coat of grass.

As a verb weary is

to make or to become weary.

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.

Anagrams

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weary

English

Adjective

(er)

Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued.

*1623 , (William Shakespeare), (As You Like It) , :

*:I care not for my spirits if my legs were not weary .

*(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)

*:[I] am weary , thinking of your task.

*:There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.

Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick.

Expressive of fatigue.

Causing weariness; tiresome.

*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

*:weary way

*(Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)

*:There passed a weary time.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* wearily * weariness * wearisome

Verb

(en-verb)

To make or to become weary.

* Shakespeare (Julius Caesar )

So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers,

* Milton

I would not cease / To weary him with my assiduous cries.

* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4

Yet there was no time to be lost if I was ever to get out alive, and so I groped with my hands against the side of the grave until I made out the bottom edge of the slab, and then fell to grubbing beneath it with my fingers. But the earth, which the day before had looked light and loamy to the eye, was stiff and hard enough when one came to tackle it with naked hands, and in an hour's time I had done little more than further weary myself and bruise my fingers.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* (l)