Grisly

Adjective

 * 1) horrifyingly repellent; terrifying, gruesome
 * The photos of the killings depict a grisly scene.

Thesaurus
abhorrent, abominable, appalling, astounding, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, blue, cadaverous, corpselike, deadly, deathlike, deathly, deathly pale, dire, direful, disgusting, dread, dreaded, dreadful, eerie, fell, forbidding, formidable, foul, frightful, ghastly, ghostlike, ghostly, ghoulish, gory, grim, gruesome, haggard, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, livid, loathsome, lurid, macabre, morbid, mortuary, nasty, nauseating, offensive, pale, redoubtable, repellent, repelling, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, schrecklich, shocking, sickening, terrible, terrific, terrifying, tremendous, uncanny, unearthly, wan, weird

Etymology
Late Old English grisliċ. Compare German grausen: and Danish gruselig:.

Pronunciation

 * Homophones: grizzly
 * Homophones: grizzly

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * French: épouvantable
 * German:
 * Japanese: 恐ろしい (おそろしい, osoroshī)


 * Maori: whakaweriweri
 * Russian: отвратительный
 * Spanish: repugnante, horripilante, macabro
 * Swedish: ohyggligt, gräsligt