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unsightly

English

Etymology

From un- +? sightly.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?n?sa?tli/

Adjective

unsightly (comparative more unsightly, superlative most unsightly)

  1. Displeasing to the eye.

Usage notes

  • The forms unsightlier and unsightliest are dated.

Synonyms

  • disgusting
  • ugly

Antonyms

  • beautiful
  • sightly

Translations

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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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