Scary vs. Eerie — What's the Difference?

Causing fright or alarm.

Eerie was an American magazine of horror comics introduced in 1966 by Warren Publishing. Like Mad, it was a black-and-white magazine intended for newsstand distribution and did not submit its stories to the comic book industry's voluntary Comics Code Authority.

Easily scared; very timid.

Inspiring inexplicable fear, dread, or uneasiness; strange and frightening.

Causing fear or anxiety

(Scots) Frightened or intimidated by superstition.

(informal) Uncannily striking or surprising.

Strange, weird, fear-inspiring, especially in a shadowy or mysterious way.

Subject to sudden alarm; easily frightened.

(Scotland) Frightened, timid.

(informal) To a scary extent; scarily.

An eerie creature or thing.

Barren land having only a thin coat of grass.

Serving to inspire fear, esp. a dread of seeing ghosts; wild; weird; as, eerie stories.

Barren land having only a thin coat of grass.

Affected with fear; affrighted.

Subject to sudden alarm.

Suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious;

Causing fright; alarming.

So strange as to inspire a feeling of fear;

So scary as to cause chills and shudders;