different between giant vs grisly
giant
English
Alternative forms
- giaunt (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English geaunt, geant, from Old French geant, gaiant (Modern French géant) from Vulgar Latin *gag?s, gagant-, from Latin gig?s, gigant-, from Ancient Greek ????? (gígas, “giant”) Cognate to giga- (“1,000,000,000”).
Displaced native Middle English eten, ettin (from Old English ?oten), and Middle English eont (from Old English ent).
Compare Modern English ent (“giant tree-man”) and Old English þyrs (“giant, monster, demon”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?a?.?nt/
- (dialectal, nonstandard) IPA(key): /?d?a?nt/
- Rhymes: -a??nt
- Hyphenation: gi?ant
Noun
giant (plural giants)
- A mythical human of very great size.
- (mythology) Specifically:
- Any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
- A jotun.
- A very tall and large person.
- A tall species of a particular animal or plant.
- (astronomy) A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (e.g. red giant, blue giant).
- (computing) An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
- A very large organisation.
- A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
- 1988, Thomas Dolby, "Airhead":
- she's not the intellectual giant
- 1988, Thomas Dolby, "Airhead":
Synonyms
See also: Thesaurus:giant
Translations
Adjective
giant (not comparable)
- Very large.
Synonyms
- colossal, enormous, gigantic, immense, prodigious, vast
- See also Thesaurus:gigantic
Antonyms
- dwarf
- midget
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- TA'ing, TAing, Taing, anti-g, tagin, tangi, tiang, tinga
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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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