gruesomely

1. 1.

   in a gruesome manner

   “he was gruesomely wounded”

Questions about gruesomely

What does gruesomely mean?

gruesomely means "in a gruesome manner".

How many syllables are in gruesomely?

gruesomely has 4 syllables and divides as grue-so-me-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is gruesomely a common word?

gruesomely is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.