grausam
Meaning
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- cruel; heartless; atrocious; callous
- horrible; gruesome; savage
Concepts
FROISS
very bad
crueuses batailles
si perilleuses
Synonyms
ungezähmt
empfindungslos
unfaßbar
unerhört
übelwollend
ungefällig
blutgierig
sehr schlecht
horrormäßig
bluttriefend
fleischfressend
schonungslos
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈɡʁaʊ̯ˌzaːm/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle High German grūsam, grūwesam. By surface analysis, grauen + -sam. Compare English gruesome, Danish grusom (“horrible”) and Dutch gruwzaam (“gruesome; cruel”). Related to ergrausen (“to frighten”).
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