ghastly (
http://definr.com/ghastly)
adj 1: 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]
2: 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" [syn:
charnel,
sepulchral]