grausam

Meaning

Concepts

cruel

savage

brutal

ferocious

fierce

merciless

severe

atrocious

cruelly

horrible

inhuman

outrageous

wild

pitiless

barbarous

ghastly

sanguinary

unkind

harsh

ferociously

FROISS

crueuses batailles

si perilleuses

dirty

nasty

vulgar

hard

awful

heavy

serious

terrible

very bad

violent

butcherly

inhumane

cold

cold-blooded

malign

truculent

grim

bitterly

vicious

asperous

heartless

stonyhearted

childless

wrathy

unrelentingly

Frequency

B2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈɡʁaʊ̯ˌzaːm/
Etymology

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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