gruesomely
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.86 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The trailer for the documentary about killer Luka Magnotta doesn’t show anything graphic, but it contains clips of him handling kittens. The trailer goes on to explain that Magnotta gruesomely abuses these kittens."
- "Somewhere near the end of “Resurrection,” a sleek, hurtling, ridiculously entertaining horror movie from Andrew Semans, there’s a scene of such gruesomely bonkers intent that I actually gasped."
Etymology
Etymology tree English gruesome Middle English -ly English -ly English gruesomely From gruesome + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more gruesomely (comparative)
most gruesomely (superlative)