gruesome

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈɡɹuːsəm/|/ˈɡɹuːsm̩/    美 /ˈɡɹusəm/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Repellently frightful and shocking; ghastly, horrific.
    — He taks a ſvvirlie, auld moſs-oak, / For ſome black, grouſome Carlin; […]
  2. Awful, terrible. broadly,informal
    — The team was so unprepared that the way it played was just gruesome.
  3. Of a person: filled with fear; afraid, fearful. archaic,rare
    — Then says I to myself,—"John Ridd, these trees, and pools, and lonesome rocks, and setting of the sunlight, are making a gruesome coward of thee. Shall I go back to my mother so, and be called her fearless boy?"

词形变化

gruesomer comparative more gruesome comparative gruesomest superlative most gruesome superlative grewsome alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
gruesomely gruesomeness gruesome twosome ungruesome

词源

From grue (“(archaic except Northern England, Scotland) to be frightened; to shudder with fear”) + -some (suffix meaning ‘characterized by some specific condition or quality, usually to a considerable degree’ forming adjectives and nouns), probably popularized by the Scottish novelist and poet Walter Scott (1771–1832): see, for example, the 1816 quotation.
cognates
* Danish grusom (“cruel; horrible”)
* Middle Dutch grousaem, grusaem (modern Dutch gruwzaam (“cruel; gruesome”))
* Middle High German grûsam, grûwesam (modern German grausam (“cruel”))
* Norwegian Bokmål grusom (“cruel; horrible”)
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