• adj.
    ⦿shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
    lexical concept
  • a grisly murder
  • ghastly wounds
  • gruesome evidence of human sacrifice
  • macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages
  • macabre tortures conceived by madmen
  • the grim aftermath of the bombing
  • the grim task of burying the victims

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechadjective satellite
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:ghastly
  2. enl:grim
  3. enl:grisly
  4. enl:gruesome
  5. enl:macabre
  6. enl:sick
wn:interlingual indexili:i1046

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelghastlygrimgrislygruesomemacabresick