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Meaning of 'gruesome' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Gruesome [ a.]
- Ugly; frightful.
- Same as Grewsome.

Meaning of 'gruesome' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . gruesome [ s]
Meaning (1):
- shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
Example in sentence:
  • a grisly murder;
  • ghastly wounds;
  • gruesome evidence of human sacrifice;
  • macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages;
  • macabre tortures conceived by madmen;
  • the grim aftermath of the bombing;
  • the grim task of burying the victims

Nearby Words:

grub grubbed grubber grubbing grubbla grubby grubworm grucche gruddger grudge

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