gruesome

adjectifattesté dans les dialogues

Royaume-Uni//ˈɡɹuːsəm//
Royaume-Uni//ˈɡɹuːsm̩//
États-Unis//ˈɡɹusəm//

Repellently frightful and shocking; ghastly, horrific.

adjectif

1
Repellently frightful and shocking; ghastly, horrific.
He taks a ſvvirlie, auld moſs-oak, / For ſome black, grouſome Carlin; […]
There's a wheen German horse doun at Glasgow yonder; they ca' their commander Wittybody, or some sic name, though he's as grave and grewsome an auld Dutchman as e'er I saw.
With many a grausome shape unutterable, / Limn'd were the cavernous sepulchral walls; […]
He has taken a bride / To his gruesome side, / That's as fair as himself is bold: […]
2
familierAwful, terrible.
The team was so unprepared that the way it played was just gruesome.
3
archaïqueOf a person: filled with fear; afraid, fearful.
Then says I to myself,—"John Ridd, these trees, and pools, and lonesome rocks, and setting of the sunlight, are making a gruesome coward of thee. Shall I go back to my mother so, and be called her fearless boy?"
Some of his [Nathaniel Hawthorne's] companions, either then or afterwards, took, I believe, rather a gruesome view of his want of articulate enthusiasm, and accused him of coming to the place as a sort of intellectual vampire, for purely psychological purposes.

Étymologie

From grue (“(archaic except Northern England, Scotland) to be frightened; to shudder with fear”) + -some (suffix meaning ‘characterized by some specific condition or quality, usually to a considerable degree’ forming adjectives and nouns), probably popularized by the Scottish novelist and poet Walter Scott (1771–1832): see, for example, the 1816 quotation. cognates * Danish grusom (“cruel; horrible”) * Middle Dutch grousaem, grusaem (modern Dutch gruwzaam (“cruel; gruesome”)) * Middle High German grûsam, grûwesam (modern German grausam (“cruel”)) * Norwegian Bokmål grusom (“cruel; horrible”)

Formes

comparatif: gruesomer, more gruesome
superlatif: gruesomest, most gruesome

grub · An insect, especially a beetle, at an immature stage of its…Gruber · A surname.grudge · Deep-seated and/or long-term animosity or ill will about…

gruesome · Repellently frightful and shocking; ghastly, horrific.

grumbling · complaining grumpy · Dissatisfied and irritable.grunt · A short snorting sound, often to show disapproval, or used as…

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