gruwelijk — meaning in English

English meaning

• gruesome adj Causing horror or disgust, especially through graphic violence or death.
• morbid adj Having an unhealthy interest in death, disease, or other disturbing subjects.

Senses

gruwelijk is used for these senses in English:

• gruesome Repellently frightful and shocking; horrific or ghastly.
• morbid Grisly or gruesome.

morbid — full definition

1. adj Having an unhealthy interest in death, disease, or other disturbing subjects.
2. adj Relating to or caused by disease.

Related Dutch words