different between displeasing vs gruesome
displeasing
English
Etymology
Perhaps a calque of Old French desplaisant, from the verb desplere (“to displease”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?s?pli?z??/
Adjective
displeasing (comparative more displeasing, superlative most displeasing)
- Unattractive, dislikable, objectionable.
Translations
Verb
displeasing
- present participle of displease
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gruesome
English
Etymology
From grue (“to shudder”) +? -some. Compare Danish and Norwegian grusom (“horrible”), German grausam (“cruel”), and Dutch gruwzaam (“gruesome; cruel”).
Adjective
gruesome (comparative gruesomer or more gruesome, superlative gruesomest or most gruesome)
- Repellently frightful and shocking; horrific or ghastly.
- 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, 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.
- 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 6
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