ghastly

  • (s) shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
    • ghastly wounds
    • the grim aftermath of the bombing
    • the grim task of burying the victims
    • a grisly murder
    • gruesome evidence of human sacrifice
    • macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages
    • macabre tortures conceived by madmen
    grisly, gruesome, macabre, grim, sick,
  • (s) gruesomely indicative of death or the dead
    • a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones
    • ghastly shrieks
    • the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs
    charnel, sepulchral,

Synonyms

grisly gruesome macabre grim sick charnel sepulchral

Words of close approximity