Definition for Grisly:

• griz'li, adj. frightful: hideous.-- n. GRIS'LINESS. [ A.S. gryslíc, ágrísan, to dread; Ger. grässlich.]

Synonyms for Grisly:

• adj.

  •bloody (adjective)
  • open,
  • grisly,
  • gaping,
  • crimson,
  • raw,
  • wounded,
  • gory.
  •fearful (adjective)
  • grievous,
  • strange,
  • redoubtable,
  • distressing,
  • shuddersome,
  • monstrous,
  • overwhelming,
  • tremendous,
  • formidable,
  • atrocious,
  • unspeakable,
  • sinister,
  • horrendous,
  • sublime,
  • bloodcurdling,
  • baleful,
  • unearthly,
  • astounding,
  • dire.
  •frightening (adjective)
  • nightmarish.
  •frightful/frightening (adjective)
  • disquieting,
  • unnerving,
  • menacing,
  • intimidating,
  • petrifying,
  • portentous,
  • dread,
  • daunting,
  • repellent,
  • harrowing,
  • awesome,
  • ominous,
  • spooky,
  • inconceivable,
  • direful,
  • hairy,
  • dismaying,
  • fearsome.
  •ghastly (adjective)
  • deathlike,
  • nauseating,
  • anemic,
  • ghostly,
  • frightening,
  • ashen,
  • weak,
  • uncanny,
  • bloodless,
  • dim,
  • loathsome,
  • faint,
  • spectral,
  • supernatural,
  • mortuary,
  • pallid,
  • unpleasant,
  • cadaverous,
  • unnatural,
  • funereal,
  • wan,
  • haggard,
  • abhorrent,
  • sepulchral,
  • repulsive.
  •ghoulish (adjective)
  • cruel,
  • revolting,
  • diabolical,
  • Fiendish,
  • devilish,
  • demonic.
  •grim (adjective)
  • ferocious,
  • severe,
  • truculent,
  • intractable,
  • bleak,
  • harsh,
  • unyielding,
  • sulky,
  • forbidding,
  • glum,
  • inexorable,
  • unrelenting,
  • relentless,
  • grouchy,
  • foreboding,
  • somber,
  • implacable,
  • scowling,
  • fierce,
  • merciless,
  • sullen,
  • barbarous,
  • glowering,
  • resolute,
  • stubborn,
  • surly,
  • stern,
  • morose,
  • ruthless,
  • cantankerous,
  • splenetic,
  • grumpy*,
  • sour,
  • churlish,
  • dogged,
  • crabbed,
  • austere,
  • crusty,
  • gloomy.
  •grisly (adjective)
  • disgusting,
  • gross*,
  • sanguine,
  • sickening,
  • appalling,
  • shocking,
  • grody,
  • eerie,
  • Blood-stained,
  • abominable,
  • yucky.
  •gruesome (adjective)
  • spine-tingling,
  • weird*,
  • sick*,
  • repugnant.
  •hideous (adjective)
  • bestial,
  • animal,
  • detestable,
  • odious,
  • hateful,
  • unsightly,
  • weird,
  • nasty,
  • beast,
  • uncomely.
  •horrible (adjective)
  • fairiest,
  • more sickie,
  • most sickie,
  • fairier.
  •horrible/horrendous/horrid (adjective)
  • execrable,
  • unkind,
  • lousy,
  • obnoxious,
  • disagreeable,
  • mean,
  • unholy,
  • heinous,
  • ungodly,
  • beastly,
  • shameful.
  •horrid (adjective)
  • louer,
  • louest.
  •livid (adjective)
  • more greyish,
  • more discolored,
  • dis colored,
  • pasty,
  • most discolored,
  • most greyish,
  • dis-colored.
  •lurid (adjective)
  • more low-down,
  • most low-down,
  • off color,
  • more lowdown,
  • more low down,
  • offcolor,
  • most low down,
  • most lowdown,
  • low down.
  •macabre (adjective)
  • spookish.
  •offensive (adjective)
  • embarrassing.
  •ugly (adjective)
  • unprepossessing,
  • mis-shapen,
  • not much to look at,
  • bad-looking,
  • unbeautiful,
  • Hard-featured.

• n.

  •
  • outrageous,
  • scandalous,
  • taboo,
  • indecent.
  •alarming (noun)
  • alarming.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • horrid.
  •Other relevant words:
  • dingy,
  • unforgiving,
  • feral,
  • sorry,
  • inadequately,
  • charnel,
  • freakish,
  • awfulness,
  • debased,
  • calamitously,
  • low,
  • disgustingly,
  • wrong,
  • maleficent,
  • corrupt,
  • dispiriting,
  • unregenerate,
  • vile,
  • horrifically,
  • acrimony,
  • frightfully,
  • abusive,
  • dreaded,
  • dark,
  • formidably,
  • ghastliness,
  • disconsolate,
  • Grewsome,
  • frightfulness,
  • deadly,
  • atrociously,
  • animosity,
  • flagitious,
  • strict,
  • brainsick,
  • dour,
  • dreadfully,
  • acerbity,
  • sickish,
  • ill,
  • fearfulness,
  • knavish,
  • eery,
  • nauseated,
  • awfully,
  • exceedingly,
  • terrifically,
  • evil-minded,
  • queasy,
  • unbalanced,
  • lawless,
  • rigid,
  • Direness,
  • pique,
  • felonious,
  • poorly,
  • low-spirited,
  • inhuman,
  • nefarious,
  • wickedly,
  • depraved,
  • dissolute,
  • gravely,
  • hardly,
  • distressingly,
  • base,
  • foul,
  • wretchedly,
  • shamefully,
  • depressed,
  • malefic,
  • unappeasable,
  • drear,
  • sinful,
  • awe-inspiring,
  • demented,
  • fearfully,
  • exceptionally,
  • rascally,
  • mad,
  • damnable,
  • nauseous,
  • gorgonian,
  • revoltingly,
  • enormously,
  • unthinkable,
  • infamous,
  • dispirited,
  • pale,
  • infernal,
  • crazy,
  • evil,
  • disgraceful,
  • gross,
  • criminal,
  • blue,
  • brutal,
  • unrepentant,
  • severely,
  • savage,
  • depressing,
  • mordant,
  • disgracefully,
  • bloodthirsty,
  • incorrigible,
  • appallingly,
  • extremely,
  • squally,
  • iniquitous,
  • egregious,
  • barbaric,
  • Grisliness,
  • downhearted,
  • disgusted,
  • excessively,
  • seriously,
  • badly,
  • dismally,
  • brutish,
  • perverted,
  • grotesque,
  • dismal,
  • accursed,
  • unconscionable,
  • hellish,
  • deathly,
  • flagrant,
  • satanic,
  • drearily,
  • wicked,
  • dreary,
  • Black-hearted,
  • terribleness,
  • fell,
  • ignominiously,
  • pitiless,
  • uncommonly,
  • bad,
  • gruesomeness,
  • against the grain,
  • nightmare,
  • raven,
  • unhinged,
  • venom,
  • drab,
  • blood-curdling,
  • harshly,
  • down,
  • disturbed,
  • Horribleness,
  • sternly,
  • vicious,
  • malevolent,
  • terrific,
  • downcast,
  • bitterness,
  • degenerate,
  • immoral,
  • villainous,
  • squalid,
  • black,
  • perverse,
  • virulence,
  • dreadfulness,
  • horridness,
  • hostility,
  • potentially,
  • terribly,
  • repelling.

Paraphrases for Grisly:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    gruesome.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    terrible, horrendous, appalling, odious, abhorrent, awful.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    horrible, hideous, heinous, ugly, horrific, brutal, violent, atrocious.

Antonyms for Grisly:

• adj.

  • fearful
    good, pleasant.
  • frightful/frightening
    calming, comforting.
  • ghastly
    delightful, wonderful.
  • grim
    bright, joyful, hopeful, sunny, happy, cheerful.
  • grisly
    pleasing, nice, pretty.
  • gruesome
    beautiful.
  • hideous
    attractive, charming.
  • horrible/horrendous/horrid
    agreeable, magnificent.
  • Other antonyms:
    delectable, cheering, inviting, soothing, enjoyable, satisfying, enticing, unalarming, pleasurable, delicious, welcome, appealing.

Grisly Sentence Examples:

• Then give command the sacrifice to haste, Let the flay'd victims in the flame be cast, And sacred vows and mystic song applied To grisly Pluto and his gloomy bride.

• Astonish'd at the sight, aghast I stood, And a cold fear ran shivering through my blood; Straight I command the sacrifice to haste, Straight the flay'd victims to the flames are cast, And mutter'd vows, and mystic song applied To grisly Pluto, and his gloomy bride.

Homophones for Grisly:

• grizzly.