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afgrijselijk — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • atrocious adjective Extremely cruel, brutal, or shocking.
  • awful adj Very bad or unpleasant.
  • ghastly adj Extremely unpleasant, shocking, or horrifying.
  • grisly adv In a horrifying or gruesome manner.
  • gruesome adj Causing horror or disgust, especially through graphic violence or death.
  • heinous adjective Shockingly evil or wicked, especially describing a crime.
  • hideous adjective Extremely or shockingly ugly.

Senses

afgrijselijk is used for these senses in English:

  • atrocious Frightful, evil, cruel, or monstrous.
  • atrocious Very bad; abominable, disgusting.
  • awful (dated) Causing fear or horror; appalling, terrible.
  • ghastly Horrifyingly shocking.
  • ghastly Extremely bad.
  • grisly Horrifyingly repellent; gruesome, terrifying.
  • gruesome Repellently frightful and shocking; horrific or ghastly.
  • heinous Totally reprehensible.

atrocious — full definition

  1. adjective Extremely cruel, brutal, or shocking.
  2. adjective Very bad in quality; appalling.

awful — full definition

  1. adj Very bad or unpleasant.
  2. adv informal: Very; extremely.

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