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Synonyms for gruesome
ˈgru səmgrue·some
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Princeton's WordNet
ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sickadjective
shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
"ghastly wounds"; "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen"
Synonyms:
down(p), dispirited, downcast, nauseous, wan, disgusted, pale, forbidding, dismal, dark, charnel, sick, demented, disconsolate, sepulchral, black, gloomy, low, unbalanced, pallid, unrelenting, down in the mouth, stern, blue, disturbed, brainsick, unappeasable, macabre, downhearted, grim, sickish, ill, nauseated, mordant, sick(p), unhinged, dour, fed up(p), mad, low-spirited, relentless, unforgiving, sorry, crazy, drab, ghastly, depressed, dingy, inexorable, dreary, queasy, drear, grisly, sick of(p), tired of(p)Antonyms:
unalarming
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#271 | black | |
#402 | low | |
#618 | blue | |
#1640 | dark | |
#2263 | sorry | |
#3304 | crazy | |
#4248 | mad | |
#4320 | ill | |
#4358 | sick | |
#6918 | terrible | |
#7759 | disturbed | |
#8709 | horrible | |
#9332 | pale | |
#9703 | wan | |
#9775 | awful | |
#10536 | stern | |
#11289 | cruel | |
#12913 | depressed | |
#14856 | grim | |
#23190 | dreadful | |
#24248 | relentless | |
#26052 | horrific | |
#28501 | unbalanced | |
#28539 | dismal | |
#28701 | gloomy | |
#29891 | appalling | |
#30977 | hideous | |
#32741 | disgusted | |
#36370 | gruesome | |
#36399 | macabre | |
#37338 | dreary | |
#38464 | demented | |
#38864 | horrendous | |
#39885 | horrifying | |
#42416 | forbidding | |
#43052 | drab | |
#45529 | heinous | |
#47042 | ghastly | |
#49169 | unrelenting | |
#50274 | atrocious | |
#58157 | grisly | |
#58318 | dingy | |
#60472 | unforgiving | |
#63360 | unhinged | |
#68728 | dour | |
#73839 | inexorable | |
#78143 | pallid | |
#81217 | nauseous | |
#81752 | downcast | |
#86575 | queasy | |
#113981 | nauseated | |
#117416 | mordant | |
#147160 | dispirited | |
#167212 | disconsolate | |
#167707 | charnel | |
#169244 | drear | |
#203639 | sepulchral | |
#245806 | downhearted |
How to use gruesome in a sentence?
This mass burial, so different to the other individual burials found in the Bedlam cemetery, is very likely a reaction to a catastrophic event, only closer analysis will tell if this is a plague pit from the Great Plague in 1665, but we hope this gruesome but exciting find will tell us more about one of London's most notorious killers.
The narrative about Sierra Leone was child soldiers, really gruesome details about what happened during the war.
We know that in the application of the death penalty we've had recent cases, by any standard, it has not been swift and painless but rather gruesome and clumsy.
Chief Superintendent Will Chatterton:
Today the world is just that little bit safer, he had spent the past 18 months locked away in a bedroom of his parents' house ... and spent hours making online posters and propaganda encouraging would-be terrorists to carry out the most gruesome attacks.
I will continue to pursue all legal avenues to hold Jamal's killers accountable and I will not rest until we get Justice for Jamal Khashoggis, jamal's killers and those who ordered Jamal Khashoggis murder have evaded justice thus far. I hope this criminal case in Turkey brings to light the whereabouts of Jamal's body, the evidence against the killers and the evidence of those behind the gruesome murder.
Translations for gruesome
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- uhyggelig, makaberDanish
- grauenhaft, grauenvollGerman
- φρικτός, απαίσιοςGreek
- truculentoSpanish
- فریبندهPersian
- horribleFrench
- truculentoGalician
- भीषणHindi
- raccapricciante, orribileItalian
- 身の毛もよだつJapanese
- tūpōMāori
- gruwelijk, verschrikkelijk, afschuwelijk, angstaanjagend, gruwzaamDutch
- grusomNorwegian
- makabrycznyPolish
- horrendo, pavoroso, medonhoPortuguese
- groaznicRomanian
- ужасный, омерзительный, отвратительныйRussian
- grozanSerbo-Croatian
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