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brobdingnagian
English
Adjective
brobdingnagian (comparative more brobdingnagian, superlative most brobdingnagian)
- Alternative letter-case form of Brobdingnagian
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grisly
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /????zli/
- Homophone: grizzly
- Hyphenation: gris?ly
Etymology 1
From Middle English grisely, grysly, grissli?, griselich, grislich, from Old English grisli? (“grisly, horrible; dreadful, horrid”), from gr?san (“to shudder with horror; to tremble, to be terrified; to make tremble, to terrify; to agrise, grise”) (unattested but implied in ?gr?san) + -lic (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘characteristic of, pertaining to’).
The word may also be an aphetic form of Old English ongrislic, agrisenli?, the past participle of agr?san (“to agrise”).
Compare Danish grusom, Swedish gräslig, Middle Dutch grezelijc (modern Dutch griezelig), Middle High German grisenlich (modern German grässlich, grausen).
Adjective
grisly (comparative grislier, superlative grisliest)
- Horrifyingly repellent; gruesome, terrifying.
- Synonyms: (obsolete) grisy, gristly, (misspellings) grizzly; see also Thesaurus:frightening
- Misspelling of gristly.
- Misspelling of grizzly.
Usage notes
Not to be confused with gristly or grizzly.
Alternative forms
- griesly, grislie (obsolete)
Derived terms
- grislily
- grisliness
- ungrisly
Related terms
- grise
Translations
Etymology 2
From grisle (“horror, terror”) +? -ly; compare Middle Dutch griselike, Middle Low German grislike.
Adverb
grisly (comparative more grisly, superlative most grisly)
- (obsolete) In a horrible or terrible manner; in a terrifying way.
Synonyms
- grimly
- horribly
- terribly
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