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6-letter words (1 found)

GRISLY,

5-letter words (3 found)

GIRLS,GIRLY,GRISY,

4-letter words (6 found)

GIRL,GRIS,GYRI,LIGS,RIGS,SYLI,

3-letter words (8 found)

GIS,LIG,LIS,RIG,SIG,SIR,SLY,SRI,

2-letter words (4 found)

GI,IS,LI,SI,

You can make 22 words from grisly according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of grisly

grisly

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡɹɪzli/
  • Homophone: grizzly
  • Hyphenation: gris‧ly

Etymology 1

From Middle English grisely, grysly, grissliȝ, griselich, grislich, from Old English grisliċ (“grisly, horrible; dreadful, horrid”), from grīsan (“to shudder with horror; to tremble, to be terrified; to make tremble, to terrify; to agrise, grise”) (unattested but implied in āgrīsan) + -lic (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘characteristic of, pertaining to’).

The word may also be an aphetic form of Old English ongrislic, agrisenliċ, the past participle of agrīsan (“to agrise”).

Compare Danish grusom, Swedish gräslig, Middle Dutch grezelijc (modern Dutch griezelig), Middle High German grisenlich (modern German grässlich, grausen).

Adjective

grisly (comparative grislier, superlative grisliest)

  1. Horrifyingly repellent; gruesome, terrifying.
    Synonyms: (obsolete) grisy, gristly, (misspellings) grizzly; see also Thesaurus:frightening
  2. Obsolete form of grizzly.
  3. Misspelling of gristly.
Usage notes

Not to be confused with gristly or grizzly.

Alternative forms
  • griesly, grislie (obsolete)
Derived terms
  • grislily
  • grisliness
  • ungrisly
Related terms
  • grise
Translations

Noun

grisly (plural grislies)

  1. Obsolete form of grizzly (“type of bear”).

Etymology 2

From grisle (“horror, terror”) +‎ -ly; compare Middle Dutch griselike, Middle Low German grislike.

Adverb

grisly (comparative more grisly, superlative most grisly)

  1. (obsolete) In a horrible or terrible manner; in a terrifying way.
Synonyms
  • grimly
  • horribly
  • terribly

References

Middle English

Adjective

grisly

  1. grisly: horrifyingly repellentrepellent; gruesome, terrifying

Adverb

grisly

  1. grisly: in a horrible or terrible manner; in a terrifying way

Source: wiktionary.org