Synonyms for gruesome
ˈgru səmgrue·some

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1. ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sickadjective

   shockingly repellent; inspiring horror

   "ghastly wounds"; "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen"

   Synonyms:
   down(p), dispirited, downcast, nauseous, wan, disgusted, pale, forbidding, dismal, dark, charnel, sick, demented, disconsolate, sepulchral, black, gloomy, low, unbalanced, pallid, unrelenting, down in the mouth, stern, blue, disturbed, brainsick, unappeasable, macabre, downhearted, grim, sickish, ill, nauseated, mordant, sick(p), unhinged, dour, fed up(p), mad, low-spirited, relentless, unforgiving, sorry, crazy, drab, ghastly, depressed, dingy, inexorable, dreary, queasy, drear, grisly, sick of(p), tired of(p)

   Antonyms:
   unalarming

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1. List of paraphrases for "gruesome":

   horrible, terrible, horrific, horrifying, horrendous, atrocious, heinous, appalling, dreadful, awful, hideous, cruel, macabre

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1. President Barack Obama:

   We know that in the application of the death penalty we've had recent cases, by any standard, it has not been swift and painless but rather gruesome and clumsy.

2. Jay Carver:

   This mass burial, so different to the other individual burials found in the Bedlam cemetery, is very likely a reaction to a catastrophic event, only closer analysis will tell if this is a plague pit from the Great Plague in 1665, but we hope this gruesome but exciting find will tell us more about one of London's most notorious killers.

3. Louis Charbonneau:

   The General Assembly has sent a crystal-clear message to Russia's leadership that a government whose military is routinely committing horrific rights violations has no business on the UN Human Rights Council, gruesome images from Bucha have shocked people around the world. Victims and their families deserve to see those responsible held to account.

4. Brigitte Nacos:

   The more gruesome the executions are, the more attention they get, when President Obama responds to each of their killing videos ... that gives them the feeling of being a powerful political actor that legitimate actors have to deal with.

5. Chief Superintendent Will Chatterton:

   Today the world is just that little bit safer, he had spent the past 18 months locked away in a bedroom of his parents' house ... and spent hours making online posters and propaganda encouraging would-be terrorists to carry out the most gruesome attacks.