Synonyms for gruesome
ˈgru səmgrue·some

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1. ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sickadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   down(p), dispirited, downcast, nauseous, wan, disgusted, pale, forbidding, dismal, dark, charnel, sick, demented, disconsolate, sepulchral, black, gloomy, low, unbalanced, pallid, unrelenting, down in the mouth, stern, blue, disturbed, brainsick, unappeasable, macabre, downhearted, grim, sickish, ill, nauseated, mordant, sick(p), unhinged, dour, fed up(p), mad, low-spirited, relentless, unforgiving, sorry, crazy, drab, ghastly, depressed, dingy, inexorable, dreary, queasy, drear, grisly, sick of(p), tired of(p)

   Antonyms:
   unalarming

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1. List of paraphrases for "gruesome":

   horrible, terrible, horrific, horrifying, horrendous, atrocious, heinous, appalling, dreadful, awful, hideous, cruel, macabre

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1. Chloe Jakubowski:

   As soon as it stopped I looked up and looked around me and it was extremely gruesome, honestly, everybody there, we grabbed everybody out and helped as best we could.

2. Gary Hinman:

   I'm very angry and disappointed with the justice system, i don't understand why you would let someone out who has committed such a gruesome crime. Do you want Bobby Beausoleil walking down the street next to you ? This is a matter of public safety.

3. President Barack Obama:

   We know that in the application of the death penalty we've had recent cases, by any standard, it has not been swift and painless but rather gruesome and clumsy.

4. Mg:

   I'm a human and I placed my trust! Yet all I receive from you is bloody, money lust! Maybe you think you creeped and cheated, Yet, you just lost the one who supported. I maybe agonising for trusting you! Trust me, I shall see more gruesome pain in you. Money is a bitch which you're holding now! But, I have enjoyed it so much, you'd should take bow! Not one day, it takes a moment to for me to surpass you! I'd enjoy it, while I see you in the streets of blue!

5. Tim Berners-Lee:

   Like all powerful tools, it can be used for good and evil, it can be used by good people and bad people, when you look at the Web you see humanity connected. Humanity has got some wonderful parts and some gruesome parts. You can't design an Internet that will suddenly turn everybody into saints. What you can do is design an Internet that is open.