Gruesome
['gruːs(ə)m]
Definition
(a.) Ugly; frightful.
(a.) Same as Grewsome.
Editor: Myra
Definition
adj. horrible: fearful: dismal depressing.—vs.i. Grue Grew to shudder: to feel horror or repulsiveness.
Typed by Lena
Examples
- The swiftness with which the papers displaced the gruesome details of the little girl's death by exultation over the business future of the city was a caution. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Their bodies were heaped together, a leathern carpet was spread over them, and on this gruesome table Abul Abbas and his councillors feasted. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- 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. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- I was alone with my gruesome companions--with the bones of dead men whose fate was likely but the index of my own. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- It was a most grotesque and horrid tableau and I hastened out into the fresh air; glad to escape from so gruesome a place. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- So soon as the last of the gruesome procession had disappeared the girl urged us to take up our flight once more. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
Typed by Dewey