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Gruesome vs Hellhouse - What's the difference?

gruesome | hellhouse |

As an adjective gruesome

is repellently frightful and shocking; horrific or ghastly.

As a noun hellhouse is

a house that was the scene of a horrific incident.

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.}}

    hellhouse

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A house that was the scene of a horrific incident
  • An entertainment, at a fair etc, in which visitors pay to be frightened by gruesome exhibits etc.

    • See also

    *haunted house