Synonyms for gruesome

Grammar : Adj

Spell : groo-suh m

Phonetic Transcription : ˈgru səm

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Définition of gruesome

Origin : 1560s, with -some (1) + Middle English gruen "feel horror, shudder" (c.1300); not recorded in Old English or Norse, possibly from Middle Dutch gruwen or Middle Low German gruwen "shudder with fear" (cf. German grausam "cruel"), or from a Scandinavian source (cf. Danish grusom "cruel," grue "to dread," though others hold that these are Low German loan-words). One of the many Scottish words popularized in England by Scott's novels.

adj horrible, awful

Example sentences :

It is a gruesome doctrine, that a child who kills himself does not really die.
Extract from : « City of Endless Night » by Milo Hastings

The interior of the ship faded to its gruesome green darkness.
Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 » by Various

The man and woman were chopping at the viscous, gruesome head.
Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 » by Various

Down by his feet the gruesome mangled corpses were the size of children.
Extract from : « The World Beyond » by Raymond King Cummings

It had all the imperfections of unskilful improvisation and its subject was gruesome.
Extract from : « An Outcast of the Islands » by Joseph Conrad

But the grief I had brought to these two ladies had gruesome associations.
Extract from : « Under Western Eyes » by Joseph Conrad

She accepted this gruesome intelligence without any signs of distress.
Extract from : « The Point Of Honor » by Joseph Conrad

The old cemetery with its gruesome headstones oppressed her.
Extract from : « Glory of Youth » by Temple Bailey

But please forget all about this gruesome matter just now, my dear boy.
Extract from : « Darry the Life Saver » by Frank V. Webster

"It is a kind of gruesome fable," she said when he was done, and she shuddered slightly.
Extract from : « Gilian The Dreamer » by Neil Munro

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