gruesome

Word family

grue·some /ˈɡruːsəm/ adjectiveadj

BAD BEHAVIOUR OR ACTIONSvery unpleasant or shocking, and involving someone being killed or badly injured 令人厌恶的，可怕的〔涉及有人被杀或受重伤〕

Police described it as a particularly gruesome attack.

警方称这是一起极其恐怖的袭击事件。

Spare me the gruesome details.

别跟我讲那些可怕的细节。

—gruesomely adverbadv

Examples from the Corpus

gruesome• a gruesome accident• The antique woodcuts, etchings, and contemporary photographs that illustrate the book are at once gruesome and riveting.• But sitting through nearly 111 minutes of bloody crime scenes, test-tube shots and gruesome autopsy scenes is just unpleasant and boring.• He begins his career as a boy with gruesome, bloody experiments on live animals.• Earlier in the day, they found more gruesome debris.• He even remembered the gruesome details of the spelling bee he lost in front of the entire seventh grade.• It wants us to live out that gruesome fantasy, to find out whether we could handle it.• I'd turn from gruesome Gilly into gorgeous, gracious, good, glorious Galadriel.

Origin gruesome

(1500-1600) grue “to shake (with fear)” ((14-19 centuries)), from Middle Dutch gruwen

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Corpus

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gruesome

adjective

VERBS | ADVERB

VERBS

➤be令人毛骨悚然

ADVERB

➤particularly特別恐怖

▸➤extremely, fairly, very, etc.極其／相當／非常嚇人

BNC: 14357 COCA: 11393

gruesome adj.
⇨ terrible 3

BNC: 14357 COCA: 11393

gruesome

Extremely unpleasant: horrible, dreadful, disgusting...