awful vs scary

awful

adv
  • Awfully; dreadfully; terribly. 

  • Very, extremely. 

adj
  • Exceedingly great; usually applied intensively. 

  • Very bad. 

scary

adv
  • To a scary extent; scarily. 

adj
  • Uncannily striking or surprising. 

  • Subject to sudden alarm; easily frightened. 

  • Causing fear or anxiety 

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

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