different between gruesome vs reprehensible

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.

Translations

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin reprehensibilis, from Latin reprehendo; equivalent to reprehend +? -ible.

Adjective

reprehensible (comparative more reprehensible, superlative most reprehensible)

1. Blameworthy, censurable, guilty.
2. Deserving of reprehension.

Synonyms

• at fault, deplorable, remiss

Related terms

• reprehensibility
• reprehend
• reprehensive
• irreprehensible
• reprehension

Translations

Noun

reprehensible (plural reprehensibles)

1. A reprehensible person; a villain.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin reprehensibilis, from Latin reprehendo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rep?een?sible/, [re.p?e.?n?si.??le]

Adjective

reprehensible (plural reprehensibles)

1. reprehensible

   Synonym: reprensible

Related terms

• reprehender
• reprehensión