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#2 (permalink) Thu Jun 03, 2010 7:01 am What is the difference between grisly and gruesome? |
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'grizzly' here refers to a specific animal. The 'grizzly bear' is a species of brown bear from North America. The tips of its fur are greyish in colour - a grizzled person or a person with grizzled hair has hair that is grey or partly grey.
Gruesome means extremely unpleasant and shocking. "There has been a gruesome murder in the county." _________________ "Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened."
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#3 (permalink) Thu Jun 03, 2010 13:46 pm What is the difference between grisly and gruesome? |
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Hi Mirko, Grisly: shocking, horrible, gruesome etc. _________________ One Way of Learning English Grammar
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#4 (permalink) Thu Jun 03, 2010 13:56 pm What is the difference between grisly and gruesome? |
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Linda wrote: | Hi Mirko, Grisly: shocking, horrible, gruesome etc. |
Yeah, but what is the difference between "grisly" and "gruesome"? (I believe that was the original question, and I'm fresh out of ideas...) _________________ "He who tries to establish his point by much yelling shows that his reasoning is weak"
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#5 (permalink) Thu Jun 03, 2010 14:02 pm What is the difference between grisly and gruesome? |
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Because of the copied/pasted question, I assumed the poster meant 'grizzly' and it was a mis-spelling.
If not, then there is no significant difference. They are synonyms. _________________ "Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened."
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