Synset:ghastly grim grisly gruesome sick
Examples:
- 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
Antonyms:unalarming
Derivationally Related Form:ghastlinessgrimnessgruesomeness
Inherited Hypernyms:ghastly
Similar to:alarming