Adjective

• S: (adj) ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick (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"
• S: (adj) charnel, ghastly, sepulchral (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"