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gruesome
English
Etymology
From grue (“to shudder”) +? -some. Compare Danish and Norwegian grusom (“horrible”), German grausam (“cruel”), and Dutch gruwzaam (“gruesome; cruel”).
Adjective
gruesome (comparative gruesomer or more gruesome, superlative gruesomest or most gruesome)
- Repellently frightful and shocking; horrific or ghastly.
- 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 6
- In the middle of the floor lay a skeleton, every vestige of flesh gone from the bones to which still clung the mildewed and moldered remnants of what had once been clothing. Upon the bed lay a similar gruesome thing, but smaller, while in a tiny cradle near-by was a third, a wee mite of a skeleton.
- 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 6
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odious
English
Etymology
From Middle English odious, from Old French odieus, from Latin odi?sus, from odium (“hate”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???.di.?s/
- (US) IPA(key): /?o?.di.?s/
- Rhymes: -??di?s
Adjective
odious (comparative more odious, superlative most odious)
- Arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure.
- Scrubbing the toilet is an odious task.
Usage notes
- Nouns to which "odious" is often applied: debt, man, character, crime, task, comparison, woman, person, vice, word, act.
Synonyms
- detestable, hated, reviled, unsavory, contemptible, despicable
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