grisly

Signification (Anglais)

Adj

1. Horrifyingly repellent; gruesome, terrifying.
2. (alt-of, obsolete) Obsolete form of grizzly.
3. (alt-of, misspelling) Misspelling of gristly.

Noun

Obsolete form of grizzly (“type of bear”).

Adv

In a horrible or terrible manner; in a terrifying way.

Concepts

horrible

épouvantable

sinistre

macabre

affreux

répugnant

maussade

abominable

effrayant

désagréable

effroyable

morbide

gothique

thanatophile

abject

atroce

détestable

funèbre

funeste

hideux

lugubre

odieux

repoussant

Synonymes

ghastly

horrible

gruesome

macabre

nasty

bleak

dismal

dreary

dreadful

horrid

horrific

awful

grim

terrible

hideous

quakingly

atrocious

tremblingly

frightful

dredful

sick

🤢

abominable

terrifying

fearsome

dread

horrendous

dreaded

dire

god-awful

outrageous

godawful

awing

bad

👎

creepy

detestable

direful

disgusting

eerie

formidable

foul

ghoulish

gory

grotesque

gruesomely

heinous

monstrous

morbid

raging

redoubtable

repellent

Traductions

espantoso

grässlich

akelig

griezelig

macabro

eng

horroroso

korkunç

horripilant

macabre

amarus

grausig

grässliche

afgrijselijk

spaventoso

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈɡɹɪzli/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: grisely

Hérité de ancien anglais: grisliċ

Hérité de ancien anglais: ongrislic

Appartenant à danois: grusom

Appartenant à suédois: gräslig

Appartenant à moyen néerlandais: grezelijc

Appartenant à néerlandais: griezelig

Appartenant à moyen haut-allemand: grisenlich

Appartenant à allemand: grässlich

In summary

From Middle English grisely, grysly, grissliȝ, griselich, grislich, from Old English grisliċ (“grisly, horrible; dreadful, horrid”), from grīsan (“to shudder with horror; to tremble, to be terrified; to make tremble, to terrify; to agrise, grise”) (unattested but implied in āgrīsan) + -lic (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘characteristic of, pertaining to’).
The word may also be an aphetic form of Old English ongrislic, agrisenliċ, the past participle of agrīsan (“to agrise”).
Compare Danish grusom, Swedish gräslig, Middle Dutch grezelijc (modern Dutch griezelig), Middle High German grisenlich (modern German grässlich, grausen).