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| Main Entry: | gruesome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | horrible, awful |
| Synonyms: | abominable, appalling, fearful, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, gross*, hideous, loathsome, lurid, macabre, monstrous, morbid, offensive, repugnant, repulsive, shocking, sick*, spine-tingling*, terrible, terrifying, ugly, weird*, daunting, grody, horrendous, horrid, horrific, horrifying |
| Notes: | grueling means characterized by physical effort to the point of exhaustion; gruesome means shockingly repellent, inspiring horror |
| Antonyms: | beautiful, pleasant, pretty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | awful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very bad; terrible |
| Synonyms: | abominable, alarming, appalling, atrocious, deplorable, depressing, dire, disgusting, distressing, dreadful, fearful, frightful, ghastly, gross*, gruesome, grungy*, harrowing, hideous, horrible, nasty, offensive, raunchy, repulsive, shocking, stinking, synthetic, tough, ugly, unpleasant, unsightly, grody, horrendous, horrific, horrifying |
| Antonyms: | beautiful, good, pleasing, ok |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | creepy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nasty, scary |
| Synonyms: | awful, direful, disgusting, disturbing, dreadful, eerie, frightening, ghoulish, gruesome, hair-raising, horrible, itchy, macabre, menacing, nightmarish, ominous, sinister, terrifying, threatening, unpleasant, weird, itching, shuddersome |
| Antonyms: | good, nice, normal, pleasant, pleasing, unscary |
| Main Entry: | disgusting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sickening; repulsive |
| Synonyms: | abominable, awful, beastly, cloying, creepy, detestable, distasteful, foul, frightful, ghastly, gross*, gruesome, hateful, hideous, icky*, loathsome, lousy, macabre, monstrous, nasty, nauseating, noisome, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outrageous, repellent, repugnant, revolting, rotten, scandalous, shameless, shocking, sleazy*, stinking, vile, vulgar, yucky*, grody, horrid, horrific, nerdy, satiating, scuzzy, sleazeball, surfeiting, yecchy |
| Antonyms: | attractive, desirous, pleasant, pleasing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dismal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bleak, dreary, gloomy |
| Synonyms: | black, boring, cheerless, cloudy, dark, depressed, depressing, desolate, despondent, dim, dingy, disagreeable, discouraging, doleful, dolorous, dull, forlorn, frowning, funereal, ghastly, gruesome, hopeless, horrible, inauspicious, joyless, lonesome, lowering, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, monotonous, morbid, murky, oppressive, overcast, sad, shadowy, somber, sorrowful, tedious, tenebrous, troublesome, unfortunate, unhappy, afflictive, disheartening, dispiriting, horrid, in the pits |
| Antonyms: | bright, cheerful, glad, happy, hopeful, light, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | ghastly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | horrifying, dreadful; pale |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, anemic, appalling, ashen, awful, bloodless, cadaverous, dim, disgusting, faint, frightening, frightful, funereal, ghostly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, gruesome, haggard, hideous, horrible, livid, loathsome, lurid, macabre, mortuary, nauseating, offensive, pallid, repellent, repulsive, sepulchral, shocking, sickening, spectral, supernatural, terrible, terrifying, uncanny, unearthly, unnatural, unpleasant, wan, weak, corpselike, deathlike, horrendous, horrid, wraithlike |
| Antonyms: | delightful, pleasant, pleasing, wonderful |
| Main Entry: | ghoulish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hideous, scary |
| Synonyms: | cruel, demonic, devilish, diabolical, eerie, fiendish, frightening, ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, horrible, macabre, monstrous, morbid, revolting, spooky, terrifying, spine-chilling |
| Main Entry: | grim |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hopeless, horrible in manner, appearance |
| Synonyms: | austere, barbarous, bleak, cantankerous, churlish, cruel, crusty, dogged, ferocious, fierce, forbidding, foreboding, formidable, frightful, funereal, ghastly, gloomy, glum, grisly, grouchy, gruesome, grumpy*, harsh, hideous, implacable, inexorable, intractable, merciless, morose, ominous, relentless, resolute, ruthless, severe, shocking, sinister, somber, sour, stern, stubborn, sulky, sullen, surly, terrible, truculent, unrelenting, unyielding, crabbed, glowering, horrid, scowling, splenetic |
| Antonyms: | bright, cheerful, happy, hopeful, joyful, sunny |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | grisly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | horrifying |
| Synonyms: | abominable, appalling, awful, bloody, disgusting, dreadful, eerie, frightful, ghastly, grim, gross*, gruesome, hideous, horrible, lurid, macabre, sanguine, shocking, sick, sickening, terrible, terrifying, yucky*, blood-stained, grody, horrid |
| Antonyms: | nice, pleasing, pretty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hideous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | grotesque, horrible |
| Synonyms: | abominable, animal, appalling, awful, beast, bestial, detestable, disgusting, dreadful, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, gross*, gruesome, hateful, loathsome, macabre, monstrous, morbid, nasty, odious, offensive, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, shocking, sick, sickening, terrible, terrifying, ugly, unsightly, weird, horrendous, horrid, uncomely |
| Antonyms: | attractive, beautiful, charming, delightful, pleasing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | horrible/horrendous/horrid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | repulsive, very unpleasant |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, abominable, appalling, awful, beastly, cruel, detestable, disagreeable, disgusting, dreadful, eerie, execrable, fearful, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, gross*, gruesome, heinous, hideous, loathsome, lousy, lurid, mean, nasty, obnoxious, offensive, repellent, revolting, scandalous, scary, shameful, shocking, terrible, terrifying, ungodly, unholy, unkind |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, delightful, magnificent, pleasant, pleasing, wonderful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | macabre |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | eerie; deathlike |
| Synonyms: | cadaverous, deathly, dreadful, frightening, frightful, ghastly, ghostly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, gruesome, hideous, horrible, lurid, morbid, offensive, scary, spooky, terrible, unearthly, weird, horrid, spookish |
| Antonyms: | common, living, normal |
| Main Entry: | morbid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gloomy, nasty, sickly |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, abnormal, ailing, dark, deadly, depressed, despondent, diseased, dreadful, frightful, ghastly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, gruesome, hideous, irascible, macabre, malignant, melancholy, monstrous, moody, pessimistic, saturnine, sick, somber, sullen, unhealthy, unnatural, unsound, unusual, unwholesome, brooding, horrid, infected |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy, healthy, pleased, sound |
| Main Entry: | squalid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | poor, run-down |
| Synonyms: | abominable, base, broken-down, decayed, despicable, dingy, dirty, disgusting, disheveled, fetid, filthy, foul, grimy, gruesome, horrible, ignoble, impure, low, mean, moldy, muddy, musty, nasty, odorous, offensive, poverty-stricken, ramshackle, repellent, repulsive, seedy, shabby, shoddy, sloppy, slovenly, soiled, sordid, ugly, unclean, unkempt, vile, wretched, horrid, miry, reeking, scurvy |
| Antonyms: | clean, good, rich, kept-up |
| Main Entry: | terrible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bad, horrible |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, appalling, atrocious, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, beastly, dangerous, desperate, dire, disastrous, disturbing, dread, dreadful, extreme, fearful, frightful, ghastly, gruesome, harrowing, hateful, hideous, inconvenient, loathsome, monstrous, obnoxious, odious, offensive, poor, repulsive, revolting, rotten, serious, severe, shocking, unfortunate, unpleasant, unwelcome, vile, dreaded, horrendous, horrid, horrifying, petrifying, unnerving |
| Antonyms: | good, great, nice, wonderful |
| Main Entry: | yucky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disgusting |
| Synonyms: | abominable, awful, beastly, crappy*, creepy, crummy*, detestable, distasteful, foul, funky*, gross, gruesome, hideous, icky*, loathsome, lousy, nasty, nauseating, odious, offensive, raunchy, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sickening, sleazy*, stinking, vile, vulgar, cruddy, grody, scuzzy, skanky, yecchy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | horrible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unpleasant |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, abominable, appalling, awful, beastly, cruel, detestable, disagreeable, disgusting, dreadful, eerie, execrable, fairy, fearful, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, heinous, hideous, loathsome, lousy, lurid, mean, nasty, obnoxious, offensive, repellent, repulsive, revolting, scandalous, scary, shameful, shocking, terrible, terrifying, ungodly, unholy, unkind, horrendous, horrid, sickie |
| Antonyms: | pleasant |
| Main Entry: | deathly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | suggesting end of life |
| Synonyms: | appalling, cadaverous, dreadful, gaunt, ghastly, grim, gruesome, haggard, horrible, macabre, pale, pallid, wan, wasted, corpselike, deathlike, defunctive |
| Antonyms: | animated, beginning, blooming, blossoming, lively |
| Main Entry: | frightful/frightening |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | scary, shocking |
| Synonyms: | alarming, appalling, atrocious, awesome, awful, chilling, dire, direful, disquieting, dread, dreadful, fearful, formidable, ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, hair-raising, hairy, harrowing, hideous, horrible, inconceivable, intimidating, lurid, macabre, menacing, morbid, ominous, portentous, repellent, spooky, terrible, terrifying, unspeakable, daunting, dismaying, fearsome, grabber, horrendous, horrid, horrifying, petrifying, traumatic, unnerving |
| Antonyms: | calming, comforting, pleasing |
| Main Entry: | monstrous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unnatural, shocking |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, abnormal, atrocious, cruel, desperate, devilish, diabolical, disgraceful, dreadful, egregious, evil, fiendish, flagitious, foul, freakish, frightful, grotesque, gruesome, heinous, hellish, hideous, horrible, infamous, inhuman, intolerable, loathsome, macabre, morbid, obscene, odious, ominous, outrageous, preposterous, rank, satanic, scandalous, terrible, uncanny, unusual, vicious, villainous, horrendous, horrifying, miscreated, teratoid |
| Antonyms: | average, common, expected, natural, ordinary, standard |
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