What's the difference between eerie and scary?

Eerie


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Eery

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Nerdy Gales (@NerdyGales) The size of the crowd seems to be inducing the #USMNT to play like it's a scrimmage #USAvUKR @KidWeil March 5, 2014 It’s an eerie atmosphere for sure, but there are so many US players on the field who must know they are long shots for the World Cup squad and that this may be their best, if not final chance to get to Brazil.
  • (2) There is little that can compare to the videos of the black wall of water crashing through cities or the eerie aftermath of ships beached in carparks.
  • (3) It's huge and slightly eerie, with one column of light pouring in the top and a hairy wall made entirely of sleeping daddy longlegs.
  • (4) Murky crime drama Shetland (Tuesday, 9pm, BBC1) returns this week for a second series, revealing Shetland as the most eerie – and overcast – location on Earth.
  • (5) It’s an eerie setting in many ways, a limitless vista of futuristic visions and broken dreams, of soaring ambition and once-modern flying machines brought sadly back down to earth.
  • (6) But what is eerie is how the film is beginning to surface just as media obsession with Kate Middleton – her wedding, her pregnancy – is beginning to grow as well.
  • (7) An eerie howling atmospherically emanated from the moor.
  • (8) An eerie silence descended on White Hart Lane after he collapsed – shortly before half time when the score stood at 1-1.
  • (9) Visiting Sousse’s hotels these days is an eerie experience, with empty pools, deserted bars and buffets laden with uneaten food.
  • (10) There was nothing to see for miles but sage-covered high desert, a landscape of stark beauty and eerie desolation.
  • (11) Yet there may be other, more abstract, objections contained in the eerie idea of that word: extinction, the permanent eradication of a species that has evolved and survived for thousands of years.
  • (12) In the novel, Dr Watson talks of “a spectral hound which leaves material footmarks”, and Holmes suspects that Stapleton used phosphorous to give the hound its eerie glow.
  • (13) Based on a 2004 film of the same name, Les Revenants was given its distinctive feel partly by the director's decision only to film between 4pm and 9pm – "Fabrice always wanted it to be dusk", said Thiam – and by the eerie, distinctive soundtrack created by Scottish band Mogwai.
  • (14) "In these very big firms, there's a slightly eerie feeling that it's so big you'll be there forever.
  • (15) Kerry, Ireland Kerry's hills are eerie and wet, but atmospheric.
  • (16) The 3-0 scoreline was nowhere as bad as their capitulation a few days earlier but the sense of melancholy was enhanced by the eerie indifferent atmosphere in Brasília – the booing and the ironic bullfighting-like chants to salute the Dutch passing proficiency never really threatened to reach the levels heard in Belo Horizonte, a city that unlike the Brazilian capital actually has a football culture.
  • (17) But there is an eerie calm – and ubiquitous posters praising Kadyrov and his father, Akhmad Kadyrov, the former leader killed at a stadium bombing in May 2004.
  • (18) When they got back up he said there was an eerie silence, with dead and injured parents and children all around them.
  • (19) Despite their eerie poignancy, some cycling campaigners worry that the memorials could, in fact, act in the main to put off would-be cyclists.
  • (20) There are eerie echoes of a certain Texas energy trading firm known as the "crooked E" that collapsed in 2001.

Scary


Definition:

  • (n.) Barren land having only a thin coat of grass.
  • (a.) Subject to sudden alarm.
  • (a.) Causing fright; alarming.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You can see where the religious meme sprung from: when the world was an inexplicable and scary place, a belief in the supernatural was both comforting and socially adhesive.
  • (2) For a few fevered weeks it was "who is the least scary?"
  • (3) I was like, ‘Yeah, I’m scary, I’ll fuckin’ scare you then.
  • (4) Albeit an unloveable, slightly scary Ron Burgundy in a 'I may now be a low level Tesco manager in a cheap suit but I still remember how to handle a stanley knife' kind of way," reckons Robert Lowery, who is forgetting that Jim White has a phone.
  • (5) Think the build-up to Brexit was polarising and scary?
  • (6) We usually only hear scary stories about invaders such as the Asian hornet , a lethal predator of honeybees.
  • (7) And even more scary, I have a drillion moles all over my body, some of which have now started itching, on my back.
  • (8) Asked about such mis-steps, Frieden said: “Ebola is scary.
  • (9) The trail north from the scary little airstrip at Lukla is chocker with trekkers – at times it's more like a queue than a walk.
  • (10) Onward to dystopia then: Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) The front page attacks on the 3 judges for basically just doing their job is scary.
  • (11) Honestly, it's not scary for me to die for freedom."
  • (12) I've never done it before; it's exciting and a little bit scary ... Adam Lloyd 05 November 2013 5:49pm Hi David, Big fan of your work!
  • (13) And to make your conscience even clearer, a percentage of every purchase goes back to local independent bookshops, helping them to survive in the scary era of all-online shopping.
  • (14) The white paper proposals were “scary” and threatened multiple areas of conservation, not just crocodile management, he said.
  • (15) There is a real risk of hunger growing in our city and across the nation and of people going without and that's a scary, scary thing.” Grimaldi says he doesn’t plan to introduce rationing yet.
  • (16) They told us that they think feminism is angry and scary and difficult and "not for them", and that feminists aren't feminine or sexy and that they hate men.
  • (17) But I was wrong to peg Let’s Be Cops down in the mire with the Scary Movie franchise.
  • (18) Cancer is scary, but it should not be forgotten that treatment options and outcomes have never been better and continue to improve.
  • (19) It is our job to help them through a distressing and scary time.
  • (20) As one scientist told me, and as a YouTube video of a Samsung S5 exploding after being hit with a hammer confirms: “Lithium-ion batteries are quite scary.” This is partly why they have improved by only a factor of two or three in 25 years.