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Unsightly vs Gruesome - What's the difference?

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Unsightly is a related term of gruesome.


As adjectives the difference between unsightly and gruesome

is that unsightly is displeasing to the eye while gruesome is repellently frightful and shocking; horrific or ghastly.

unsightly

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • displeasing to the eye

    • Usage notes

    * The forms unsightlier and unsightliest are dated.

    Synonyms

    * disgusting * ugly

    Antonyms

    * beautiful * sightly

    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.}}