Gruesome vs Repellent - What's the difference?
gruesome | repellent | Related terms |
repellently frightful and shocking; horrific or ghastly
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
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tending or able to repel; driving back
repulsive, inspiring aversion
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resistant or impervious to something
someone who repels
a substance used to repel insects
a substance or treatment for a fabric etc to make it impervious to something
Gruesome is a related term of repellent.
As adjectives the difference between gruesome and repellent
is that gruesome is repellently frightful and shocking; horrific or ghastly while repellent is tending or able to repel; driving back.As a noun repellent is
someone who repels.gruesome
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- 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.
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