Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: gruesome
IPA transcription: [ɡɹ'usəm]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick
    Meaning: shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; "ghastly wounds"; "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen"
Usage examples
  • In this gruesome business there lurked many tragedies, and very few romances.
  • Mr Waller was still sitting staring out across the aisle. There was something more than a little gruesome in the sight of him.
  • In the early morning, when the fire reached the municipal building on Portsmouth Square, the nurses, with the aid of soldiers, got out fifty bodies which were in the temporary morgue and a number of patients from the receiving hospital. Just after they reached the street with their gruesome charge a building was blown up, and the flying bricks and splinters came falling upon them.
  • He had to leave England. A journalist obtained access to his laboratory in the capacity of laboratory-assistant, with the deliberate intention of making sensational exposures; and by the help of a shocking accident (if it was an accident), his gruesome pamphlet became notorious. On the day of its publication a wretched dog, flayed and otherwise mutilated, escaped from Moreau's house.