Define the word gruesome"Gruesome" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Grewsome \Grew"some\, Gruesome \Grue"some\, a. [From a word akin
to Dan. gru horror, terror + -some; cf. D. gruwzaam, G.
grausam. Cf. Grisly.]
Ugly; frightful.
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Grewsome sights of war. --C. Kingsley.
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"gruesome" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
gruesome \grue"some\, a.
Ugly; frightful. Same as grewsome. [Scot.]
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"gruesome" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
gruesome
adj : 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" [syn: ghastly, grim, grisly, macabre]
"gruesome" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
67 Moby Thesaurus words for "gruesome":
abominable, appalling, astounding, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful,
baleful, blue, cadaverous, corpselike, daunting, deadly, deathlike,
deathly, deathly pale, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful,
eerie, fearsome, fell, forbidding, formidable, foul, frightening,
frightful, ghastly, ghostlike, ghostly, ghoulish, grim, grisly,
grotesque, haggard, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid,
horrific, horrifying, livid, loathsome, lurid, macabre, morbid,
mortuary, offensive, pale, redoubtable, repellent, repelling,
repugnant, repulsive, revolting, schrecklich, shocking, sinister,
terrible, terrific, terrifying, tremendous, uncanny, unearthly,
wan, weird
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