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Gruesome

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Causing horror and repugnance; frightful and shocking: a gruesome murder. See Synonyms at ghastly.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. repellently frightful and shocking; horrific or ghastly

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Ugly; frightful. Same as grewsome.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Causing one to shudder; frightfully dismal or depressing; horribly repulsive.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. shockingly repellent; inspiring horror

Word Usage

"Some Muslims have been sceptical of bin Laden's death, especially as the United States has said it will not release what it called gruesome images of his corpse for fear of inciting more violence."

Equivalent

alarming

Variant

grewsome

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

ugly fearful

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

twosome

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

grisly ghastly horrific bizarre frighten scary tragic ludicrous humiliate loathsome