When he claims to desire eternal life, in reality man merely wishes to avoid a premature, violent or gruesome death.
Source: tatoeba (410997)
Gruesome
//ˈɡɹuːsəm//
Synonyms for "gruesome" (161 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (33)
Strong matches (48)
Related words (80)
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
Synonyms
1 entriesderived
4 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
5 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
64 translations across 32 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- مُرَوِّع adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
Bulgarian
2 entries- страшен adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
- ужасен adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
Catalan
1 entries- paorós adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 可怕 adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
- 恐怖 adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
Czech
3 entries- děsný adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
- hrůzný adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
- příšerný adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
Danish
2 entries- makaber adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
- uhyggelig adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
Dutch
4 entries- afgrijselijk adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
- afschuwelijk adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
- angstaanjagend adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
- gruwelijk adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
Esperanto
1 entries- terura adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
Finnish
2 entries- kaamea adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
- kauhea adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
French
1 entries- horrible adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
Galician
2 entries- repelente adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
- truculento adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
German
2 entries- grauenhaft adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
- grauenvoll adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
Greek
2 entries- απαίσιος adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
- φρικτός adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
Irish
1 entries- gráiniúil adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
Italian
2 entries- orribile adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
- raccapricciante adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
Japanese
1 entries- 身の毛もよだつ adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
Kazakh
1 entries- жантүршігерлік adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
Malay
1 entries- mengerikan adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
Māori
2 entries- tūpō adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
- wetiweti adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
Norwegian
1 entries- grusom adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
Occitan
2 entries- orrible adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
- òrre adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- grausom adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
Polish
4 entries- makabryczny adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
- odpychający adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
- okropny adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
- przerażający adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
Portuguese
3 entries- horrendo adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
- medonho adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
- pavoroso adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
Romanian
1 entries- groaznic adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
Russian
3 entries- омерзи́тельный adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
- отврати́тельный adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
- ужа́сный adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- grȏzan adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
- гро̑зан adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
Spanish
3 entries- espantoso adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
- horripilante adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
- truculento adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
Swedish
2 entries- fasansfull adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
- ohygglig adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
Turkish
1 entries- korkunç adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
Ukrainian
2 entries- жахли́вий adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
- оги́дний adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
Welsh
2 entries- arswydus adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
- erchyll adj (repellently frightful and shocking — see also ghastly, horrific)
Sample sentences
25 total sentences available.
Any murder is gruesome but this one was especially heinous.
Source: tatoeba (963944)
He set out to make a movie as gruesome as humanly possible.
Source: tatoeba (5296673)
We had many gruesome chores like homework.
Source: tatoeba (5788582)
Showing 4 of 25 available sentences.
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.