adj. glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism; "lurid details of the accident"

adj. 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. deathly pale esp from physical or emotional distress: "ashen with grief"; "smiled with bloodless lips"; "as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips they became livid with the hue of death"

adj. causing consternation; "appalling conditions"

adj. suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious; "an eerie feeling of deja vu"

adj. resembling or characteristic of a phantom; "a ghostly face at the window"; "a phantasmal presence in the room"; "spectral emanations"; "spiritual tappings at a seance"

adj. not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material; "supernatural forces and occurrences and beings"

adj. suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; "an eldritch screech"; "the three weird sisters"; "stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures"- John Galsworthy; "an unearthly light"; "he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din"- Henry Kingsley

adj. revoltingly ugly: "a hideous scar"; "twisted into monstrous shapes"; "a monstrous urban wilderness"

adj. offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs"; "repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in recent novels"

adj. suggesting the horror of death and decay; "morbid details"

adj. harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance; "a dour, self-sacrificing life"; "a forbidding scowl"; "a grim man loving duty more than humanity"; "undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw"- J.M.Barrie

adj. extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell; "something demonic in him--something that could be cruel"; "fires lit up a diabolic scene"; "diabolical sorcerers under the influence of devils"; "a fiendish despot"; "hellish torture"; "infernal instruments of war"; "satanic cruelty"; "unholy grimaces"

adj. being of a lower world of the dead; "infernal regions"

adj. shockingly brutal or cruel; "murder is an atrocious crime"; "a grievous offense against morality"; "a grievous crime"; "no excess was too monstrous for them to commit"

adj. accompanied by bloodshed; "this bitter and sanguinary war"

adj. having or covered with or accompanied by blood; "a bloody nose"; "your scarf is all bloody"; "the effects will be violent and probably bloody"; "a bloody fight"

adj. causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"

adj. 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"

adj. grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror; "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry"

adj. lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness; "a pale rendition of the aria"; "pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender"; "a pallid performance"

adj. (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble; "the pale light of a half moon"; "a pale sun"; "the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street"; "a pallid sky"; "the pale (or wan) stars"; "the wan light of dawn"

adj. unhealthy looking

adj. resembling flame in brilliance or color; "maple trees ablaze in autumn"; "flaming autumn leaves"

adj. typical of tabloids; "sensational journalistic reportage of the scandal"; "yellow press"

adj. causing consternation; "appalling conditions"

adj. provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound"

adj. causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse"

adj. threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; "a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the situation became ugly"

adj. extremely alarming

adj. so scary as to cause chills and shudders; "the most terrible and shuddery...tales of murder and revenge"

adj. causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin; "a creepy story"; "I had a creepy-crawly feeling"

adj. inspiring fear; "the formidable prospect of major surgery"; "a tougher and more redoubtable adversary than the heel-clicking, jackbooted fanatic"- G.H.Johnston; "something unnerving and prisonlike about high grey wall"

adj. hazardous and frightening; "hairy moments in the mountains"

adj. causing extreme terror; "a terrifying wail"

adj. lacking distinguishing quality or characteristics; "a neutral personality that made no impression whatever"