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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
gruesome \grue"some\, adjective Ugly; frightful. Same as {grewsome}. [Scot.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Grewsome \Grew"some\, Gruesome \Grue"some\, adjective [From a word akin to Dan. gru horror, terror + -some; cf. D. gruwzaam, G. grausam. Cf. {Grisly}.] Ugly; frightful.
Grewsome sights of war. --C. Kingsley.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
gruesome
adjective: 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" [syn: {ghastly}, {grim}, {grisly}, {macabre}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
67 Moby Thesaurus words for "gruesome": abominable, appalling, astounding, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, baleful, blue, cadaverous, corpselike, daunting, deadly, deathlike, deathly, deathly pale, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, eerie, fearsome, fell, forbidding, formidable, foul, frightening, frightful, ghastly, ghostlike, ghostly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, grotesque, haggard, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, livid, loathsome, lurid, macabre, morbid, mortuary, offensive, pale, redoubtable, repellent, repelling, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, schrecklich, shocking, sinister, terrible, terrific, terrifying, tremendous, uncanny, unearthly, wan, weird
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