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Adjective
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Causing horror or disgust
gruesome
awful
dreadful
ghastly
shocking
hideous
horrible
macabre
terrible
appalling
frightful
horrid
grim
sickening
abominable
terrifying
dire
fearful
horrific
horrifying
distressing
horrendous
monstrous
repellent
repulsive
revolting
abhorrent
atrocious
disgusting
grewsome
gross
hellacious
loathsome
lurid
nightmare
nightmarish
odious
repugnant
sick
terrific
unspeakable
bloody
disgustful
eerie
grody
loathly
sanguine
yucky
spine-chilling
gut-churning
sick-making
blood-stained
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“But even though the college has left its grisly past behind, it's hard to dissociate it from the macabre tales of its early beginnings.”
Adjective
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Inhumanly or outrageously evil or immorally wrong
monstrous
evil
wicked
atrocious
vile
fiendish
heinous
inhuman
horrible
shocking
abominable
diabolical
base
nefarious
immoral
dreadful
villainous
depraved
foul
iniquitous
ghastly
appalling
despicable
horrifying
gruesome
devilish
hideous
odious
terrible
horrific
outrageous
shameful
awful
contemptible
horrendous
macabre
frightful
abhorrent
beastly
unspeakable
nasty
hellish
egregious
disgraceful
horrid
scandalous
bestial
flagitious
infamous
loathsome
nightmarish
satanic
lurid
morbid
grewsome
terrific
aberrant
intolerable
nightmare
ominous
obscene
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Adjective
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Disturbing in nature due to references to death or dying
distressing
macabre
gruesome
ghastly
grim
morbid
hideous
dreadful
frightening
frightful
horrid
horrific
lurid
unearthly
gloomy
horrible
horrifying
shocking
wretched
dark
eerie
somberUS
sombreUK
ghostly
gory
grotesque
nightmarish
terrifying
fearsome
funereal
monstrous
sepulchral
grewsome
nightmare
shadowy
chilling
scary
shady
spookish
spooky
death-obsessed
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Adjective
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Marked or covered with blood
bloodstained
bloody
ensanguined
imbrued
gory
bleeding
blood-soaked
bloodsoaked
bloodied
hemic
sanguinary
hematic
crimson
blood-spattered
sanguineous
sanguine
sanguinolent
blood-drenched
gore-covered
Adjective
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Related to, or resembling, a ghost, spirits, or death
ghostlike
ghostly
spectral
ghoulish
wraithlike
cadaverous
demonic
phantomlike
spiritual
corpselike
demoniac
demonish
demonlike
devilish
ethereal
ghastly
otherworldly
supernatural
deathlike
deathly
demonly
funereal
skeletal
creepy
eerie
shadowy
spooky
corpse-like
phantom
phantasmal
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Adverb
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In an awful or horrendous manner
horribly
terribly
awfully
dreadfully
frightfully
horrifyingly
terrifyingly
very
shockingly
atrociously
abominably
monstrously
horridly
horrendously
badly
appallingly
hideously
abysmally
wretchedly
woefully
miserably
forbiddingly
disgracefully
grimly
reprehensibly
execrably
alarmingly
gruesomely
wickedly
horrifically
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Grisons
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grist
grist for the gossip mill
gristle
gristles
grislinesses
grisliness
grislily
grisliest
grislier
griseous
6-letter Words Starting With
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gri
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