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.
gruesomely adverb
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for gruesome is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is gruesome a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, gruesome is tagged as adjective.
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