Ghastly - Definition

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: ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome,
macabre, sick]
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, ghastly, sepulchral]