gruesome
adjective /ˈɡruːsəm/
/ˈɡruːsəm/
- very unpleasant and filling you with horror, usually because it is connected with death or injury
- a gruesome murder
- gruesome pictures of dead bodies
- (humorous) We spent a week in a gruesome apartment in Miami.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- particularly
- extremely
- fairly
- …
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from Scots grue ‘to feel horror, shudder’ (of Scandinavian origin) + -some. Rare before the late 18th cent., the word was popularized by Sir Walter Scott.