Gruesome

Adjective

 * 1) repellently frightful and shocking; horrific or ghastly
 * 2) * 1912:, , Chapter 6
 * In the middle of the floor lay a skeleton, every vestige of flesh gone from the bones to which still clung the mildewed and moldered remnants of what had once been clothing. Upon the bed lay a similar gruesome thing, but smaller, while in a tiny cradle near-by was a third, a wee mite of a skeleton.

Adverbs for Gruesome
horribly; cadaverously; horridly; unbearably; forbiddingly; squalidly; frightfully; grimly; grossly; monstrously; odiously; repulsively; shockingly; appallingly; intolerably; dreadfully; impossibly; inconceivably; unspeakably; inexpressibly; indescribably; preposterously; exceedingly.

Synonyms for Gruesome
ghastly, hideous, ugly, grim, horrifying, fearful, grisly, repulsive, macabre, frightful, appalling.

Antonyms for Gruesome
nice, pleasant, pretty, handsome.

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

Etymology
Compare Danish and Norwegian grusom:, German grausam:.

Translations

 * Danish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Japanese: 身の毛もよだつ (minokemoyodatsu)


 * Norwegian: grusom
 * Russian: омерзительный, отвратительный,
 * Serbo-Croatian: grozan
 * Spanish: