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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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ghostlike

English

Etymology

ghost +? -like

Adjective

ghostlike (comparative more ghostlike, superlative most ghostlike)

  1. Seemingly invisible; as a ghost, similar to a ghost.

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