ghastly

Adjective

• 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
    

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  charnel , sepulchral , grim , grisly , gruesome , macabre , sick