gruesome

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a. 可怕的, 令人毛骨悚然的, 阴森的

发音

UK /ˈɡɹuːsəm/
其它
UK /ˈɡɹuːsm̩/
US /ˈɡɹusəm/

词形变化

gruesomer 比较级 gruesomer gruesomest more gruesome 比较级 gruesomest 最高级 most gruesome 最高级

别名

growsome grewsome

释义与例句

adj. C1
  1. 1.

    Repellently frightful and shocking; ghastly, horrific.

    可怕

    恐怖

  2. 2.

    Awful, terrible.

    非正式

    The team was so unprepared that the way it played was just gruesome.

  3. 3.

    Of a person: filled with fear; afraid, fearful.

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词汇关系

形容词

同义词 5

sick grim ghastly grisly macabre

近义相关 1

alarming

相关短语

gruesome twosome gruesome twosomes

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”)

来源：wiktionary