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Antonyms for gruesome

Grammar : Adj
Spell : groo-suh m
Phonetic Transcription : ˈgru səm

Definition 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

Synonyms for gruesome

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