grausam
Meaning
-
- cruel; heartless; atrocious; callous
- horrible; gruesome; savage
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
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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