Definition of Gruesome

Gruesome

Ugly; frightful.

Same as Grewsome.

Related Definitions:

As, Frightful, Grewsome, Same, Ugly

Gruesome Quotations

Forget trying to be sexy. That's just gruesome.
Colin Firth

I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.
Amy Tan

I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.
Manuel Puig

Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse - a gruesome reality literally took place in front of a global public.
Jurgen Habermas

So I was asked to do horror film after horror film, a series of about five, after that, and some of those were a little too gruesome. I wasn't too comfortable all the time in those. I didn't really care for them.
Fay Wray

But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War.
T-Bone Burnett

The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon.
Dustin Diamond

I've seen a dead body, I've seen some pretty gruesome fist fights, I've been a hunter since I was a child, though I don't anymore, I've gutted wild game.
George Eads

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Gruesome Translations

gruesome in Dutch is afschuwelijk, ijselijk
gruesome in French is terrible
gruesome in German is grausig
gruesome in Norwegian is gyselig
gruesome in Spanish is macabro, repugnante
gruesome in Swedish is ryslig

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