Gruesome

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  gruesome \grue"some\, a.
     Ugly; frightful. Same as {grewsome}. [Scot.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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