Usually means: Horrifyingly graphic, shocking, and disturbing.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word Gruesome:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. gruesome: Merriam-Webster
  2. gruesome: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gruesome: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gruesome: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gruesome: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gruesome, gruesome: Wordnik
  7. gruesome: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gruesome: Wiktionary
  9. gruesome: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gruesome: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gruesome: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Gruesome, gruesome: Dictionary.com
  13. gruesome: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gruesome: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Gruesome: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Gruesome: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. gruesome: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. gruesome: Rhymezone
  19. gruesome: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. gruesome: FreeDictionary.org
  21. gruesome: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. gruesome: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. gruesome: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gruesome: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gruesome: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. gruesome: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (gruesome)

▸ adjective:  Repellently frightful and shocking; horrific or ghastly.

Similar:
grisly, alarming, ghastly, grim, macabre, frightful, greisly, griesly, morbid, grislie, more...

Opposite:
pleasant, nice, delightful, wonderful

Types:
gory, bloody, macabre, ghoulish, more...

Phrases:
Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids, Gruesome Gertie, gruesome things, beautiful in a gruesome way, more...

Colors:
    blood red,     deep maroon,     sickly green,     bruise purple,     ash gray, more...


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Similar:
grisly, alarming, ghastly, grim, macabre, frightful, greisly, griesly, morbid, grislie, more...

Opposite:
pleasant, nice, delightful, wonderful

Types:
gory, bloody, macabre, ghoulish, more...

Phrases:
Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids, Gruesome Gertie, gruesome things, beautiful in a gruesome way, more...

Colors:
    blood red,     deep maroon,     sickly green,     bruise purple,     ash gray, more...



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