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Scry vs Scary - What's the difference?

scry | scary |

As nouns the difference between scry and scary

is that scry is (obsolete) a cry or shout while scary is barren land having only a thin coat of grass.

As a verb scry

is to predict the future using crystal balls.

As an adjective scary is

causing or able to cause fright.

scry

English

(scrying)

Etymology 1

From (descry) < (etyl) decrien < Old French descrier

Verb

  • To predict the future using crystal balls.
    • The fortune teller claimed she could scry [into] the future.
  • (obsolete) To descry; to see.
    • (Spenser)
    Derived terms
    * scryer

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) ascrie

    Noun

    (scries)
  • (obsolete) A cry or shout.
  • A flock of wildfowl.
    • (Webster 1913)

    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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