cautionary vs scary

cautionary

adj
  • Serving to caution or warn; admonitory 

  • Serving to ward off; preventive 

scary

adj
  • Subject to sudden alarm; easily frightened. 

  • Uncannily striking or surprising. 

  • Causing fear or anxiety 

noun
  • Barren land having only a thin coat of grass. 

adv
  • To a scary extent; scarily. 

How often have the words cautionary and scary occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )