Terrify vs Scary - What's the difference?
terrify | scary |
To frighten greatly; to fill with terror.
To menace or intimidate.
(obsolete) To make terrible.
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 a verb terrify
is to frighten greatly; to fill with terror.As an adjective scary is
causing or able to cause fright.As a noun scary is
barren land having only a thin coat of grass.terrify
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Alternative forms
* terrifie (obsolete)Verb
(en-verb)Synonyms
* See alsoscary
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.