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adjective, -li·er, -li·est.
1.
causing a shudder or feeling of horror; horrible; gruesome: a grisly murder.
2.
formidable; grim: a grisly countenance.
Origin:
before 1150; Middle English; Old English grislīc horrible; cognate with Old High German grīsenlīh
before 1150; Middle English; Old English grislīc horrible; cognate with Old High German grīsenlīh
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gris·li·ness, noun
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Grisly
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
Example Sentences
- Grisly evidence of these killings has been surfacing all week.
- Scientists have discovered a tiny, one-celled parasite that causes a grisly and fatal infection in krill.
- The grisly death site buzzed with activity as less magisterial creatures went about their dirty work.
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| grisly2 (ˈɡrɪzlɪ) | |
| —n , pl -lies | |
| obsolete a variant spelling of grizzly | |
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Word Origin & History
grisly
O.E. grislic "horrible, dreadful," from grisan "to shudder, fear" (cf Du. griezelen, Ger. grausen "to shudder, fear").
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