Definitions for gruesome

gruesome grue·some

Spelling: [groo-suh m]
IPA: /ˈgru səm/

Gruesome is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 249 anagrams from letters in gruesome (eegmorsu).

Definitions for gruesome

adjective

  1. causing great horror; horribly repugnant; grisly:
  2. full of or causing problems; distressing:

Origin of gruesome

1560-70; obsolete grue to shudder (cognate with German grauen, Dutch gruwen) + -some1

Examples for gruesome

Reports describe a gruesome scene of “almost unspeakable horror” with “bodies everywhere, organs splayed out.”

It had all the imperfections of unskilful improvisation and its subject was gruesome.

The man and woman were chopping at the viscous, gruesome head.

Down by his feet the gruesome mangled corpses were the size of children.

He said a perfect example is a gruesome image of a teenage girl whose head has been blown off.

A shortage of pentobarbital has forced some states to improvise, often with gruesome consequences.

Armed with the gruesome tools of the trade, Kaye and Armstrong did the dirty work before students arrived.

Gupta has to entertain, as much as inform, around a gruesome situation.

It is a gruesome doctrine, that a child who kills himself does not really die.

The interior of the ship faded to its gruesome green darkness.

Word Value for gruesome
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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