grizzly vs grisly
grizzly
Definitions
noun
- powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America
adjective
- showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
Examples
It's time to get back to basics, so hit the deck and channel your inner grizzly bear.
A lean, lithe, grizzly looking fellow, supple, agile with a leathery skin and sinewy.
He had respect for them, even as he respected the grizzly and the rattlers that his trail crossed.
grisly
Definitions
adjective
- shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
Examples
I don't think people really mind about that sort of thing unless there's been a really grisly murder on the property.
The story of secrecy, scientific ethics and national security is macabre, grisly and disturbing.
There were the black, the white, the brindle, the grey and the grisly, the rough and the smooth, the crop-eared and the lop-eared, the gaunt and the grim.
