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gruesome Definition


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gruesome
adj
    1. Inspiring horror or disgust; sickening; macabre.
      Thesaurus: ghastly, grisly, horrific, spine-chilling, monstrous, repulsive, fearsome, shocking, loathsome, hideous, abominable, repellent; Antonym: charming, congenial.
Derivative: gruesomely
adverb
    Derivative: gruesomeness
    noun
      Etymology: 16c as growsome: from dialect grue to shiver or shudder + -some.



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