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GRUESOME
ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick
(adjective) shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; “ghastly wounds”; “the grim aftermath of the bombing”; “the grim task of burying the victims”; “a grisly murder”; “gruesome evidence of human sacrifice”; “macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages”; “macabre tortures conceived by madmen”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
gruesome (comparative gruesomer or more gruesome, superlative gruesomest or most gruesome)
Repellently frightful and shocking; horrific or ghastly.
Source: Wiktionary
Grew"some
Definition: , Grue"some, a. Etym: [From a word akin to Dan. gru horror, terror + -some; cf. D. gruwzaam, G. grausam. Cf. Grisly.]
Definition: Ugly; frightful. Grewsome sights of war. C. Kingsley.
Grue"some, a.
Definition: Same as Grewsome. [Scot.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
Word of the Day
25 December 2024
UNAMBIGUOUS
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
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