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Gruesome vs Frightening - What's the difference?

gruesome | frightening | Related terms |

Gruesome is a related term of frightening.


As adjectives the difference between gruesome and frightening

is that gruesome is repellently frightful and shocking; horrific or ghastly while frightening is causing fear; of capable of causing fear; scary.

As a verb frightening is

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gruesome

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • repellently frightful and shocking; horrific or ghastly
  • * 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
    • In the middle of the floor lay a skeleton, every vestige of flesh gone from the bones to which still clung the mildewed and moldered remnants of what had once been clothing. Upon the bed lay a similar gruesome thing, but smaller, while in a tiny cradle near-by was a third, a wee mite of a skeleton.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=May 04 , title=Bin Laden was unarmed when shot dead citation , passage=Jay Carney said that the US was considering whether to release photos of bin Laden after he was killed on Sunday but that the photos were gruesome and could be inflammatory.}}

    frightening

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing fear; of capable of causing fear; scary.
    • The frightening scientist lived in an old shack.
  • (figuratively) Awful, terrible, very bad.

    • Synonyms

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    Verb

    (head)
    • The scientist was frightening the timid children.