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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)

  1. 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.

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atrocious

English

Etymology

From Latin atr?x (“cruel, fierce, frightful”) +? -ious.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: ?-tr??-sh?s
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??t?????s/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /??t?o???s/
  • Rhymes: -????s
  • Hyphenation: a?tro?cious

Adjective

atrocious (comparative more atrocious, superlative most atrocious)

  1. Frightful, evil, cruel, or monstrous.
  2. Offensive or heinous.
  3. Very bad; abominable, disgusting.

Derived terms

  • atrociously
  • atrociousness
  • vomitrocious

Related terms

  • atrocity

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