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Definition of gruesome : 1. Same as Grewsome.
2. Ugly; frightful.

Synonyms:

gloomy, mad, queasy, disconsolate, unrelenting, unappeasable, downhearted, drear, down, horrifying, dingy, tired of, crazy, grisly, brainsick, sick, lurid, low, horrific, disgusted, fed up, mordant, horrible, horrendous, frightful, sickish, macabre, dreadful, detestable, awful, nauseated, shocking, beautiful, downcast, sorry, nightmare, terrible, revolting, repulsive, pale, ghastly, demented, terrific, down in the mouth, nauseous, low-spirited, black, offensive, charnel, vile, stern, unhinged, sick of, sickening, dour, dismal, dispirited, blue, relentless, monstrous, inexorable, despicable, sepulchral, depressed, grim, nightmarish, fearful, appalling, hideous, wan, horrid, atrocious, dark, dreary, disturbed, unforgiving, drab, unbalanced, alarming, disgusting, pallid, forbidding, ill

Usage examples:

• Then with his gruesome freight he plunged into the forest. - "In the Brooding Wild", Ridgwell Cullum.
• A gruesome, but none the less striking, poster is entitled: " What is the Price of Your Arms?" - "The War After the War", Isaac Frederick Marcosson.
• He would probably be shot before he had half finished his story of the gruesome trip through the desert. - "The Rangeland Avenger", Max Brand.