Gruesome
Gruesome adjective - Extremely disturbing or repellent.
Usage example: didn't stick around to hear the gruesome details of the car accident
Hair-raising and gruesome are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Hair-raising" instead an adjective "Gruesome".
Hair-raising
Hair-raising adjective - Causing fear.
Usage example: hair-raising stories of headless corpses and disembodied screams
Gruesome and hair-raising are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Gruesome" instead an adjective phrase "Hair-raising".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- hideous and gruesome
- hideous and hair-raising
- terrible and gruesome
- terrible and hair-raising
- dreadful and gruesome
- dreadful and hair-raising
- frightful and gruesome
- frightful and hair-raising
- horrible and gruesome
- horrible and hair-raising
- appalling and gruesome
- appalling and hair-raising
- shocking and gruesome
- shocking and hair-raising
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