scary vs traumatic

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. 

traumatic

adj
  • Of, caused by, or causing trauma. 

  • Produced by wounds, especially as opposed to disease or other process. 

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