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

[ Syn: grim , grisly , gruesome , macabre , sick ]

gruesomely indicative of death or the dead; a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead mens bones; ghastly shrieks; the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs

[ Syn: charnel , sepulchral ]