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gut-wrenching
Synonyms and Antonyms of gut-wrenching
- gut-wrenching decisions
- the novel's gut-wrenching opening scene
alarming, bloodcurdling, dire, direful, fearful, fearsome, forbidding, formidable, frightening, hair-raising, heart-stopping, intimidating, redoubtable, scary, terrifying
appalling, atrocious, awful, dreadful, frightful, ghastly, grisly, gruesome (also grewsome), hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, lurid, macabre, monstrous, nightmare, nightmarish, shocking, terrible, terrific
abhorrent, deplorable, disagreeable, disgusting, distasteful, loathsome, nauseating, noisome, obnoxious, obscene, offensive, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening
abominable, evil, foul, heinous, noxious, odious, unspeakable, vile
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