gruesome
adjective/ˈɡruːsəm/
/ˈɡruːsəm/
- very unpleasant and filling you with horror, usually because it is connected with death or injury
- a gruesome murder
- gruesome pictures of dead bodies
- (humorous) We spent a week in a gruesome apartment in Miami.
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Word Originlate 16th cent.: from Scots grue ‘to feel horror, shudder’ (of Scandinavian origin) + -some. Rare before the late 18th cent., the word was popularized by Sir Walter Scott.Definitions on the go
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