Textual thesaurus for "ghastly"

(adj) gruesome, grim, grisly, sick, macabre

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

(adj) charnel, 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