About The Word Ghastly
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Ghastly Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Ghastly?
[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] 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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Ghastly: alarming | charnel | grim | grisly | gruesome | macabre | offensive | sepulchral Related Terms | Find terms related to Ghastly: achromatic | achromic | ailing | anemic | appalling | ashen | ashy | astounding | awe-inspiring | awesome | awful | bad | bled white | bloodless | blue | cadaverous | charnel | chloranemic | colorless | corpselike | dead | deadly | deadly pale | deathlike | deathly | deathly pale | dim | dimmed | dingy | dire | direful | discolored | disgusting | drawn | dread | dreaded | dreadful | dull | eerie | etiolated | exsanguinated | exsanguine | exsanguineous | faded | faint | fallow | fell | flat | forbidding | formidable | foul | frightening | frightful | ghostlike | ghostly | ghoulish | gray | grim | grisly | gross | gruesome | haggard | hideous | horrendous | horrible | horrid | horrific | horrifying | hueless | hypochromic | ill | lackluster | leaden | livid | loathsome | lurid | lusterless | macabre | mat | mealy | morbid | mortuary | muddy | nauseant | nauseating | neutral | offensive | pale | pale as death | pale-faced | pallid | pasty | redoubtable | repellent | repelling | repugnant | repulsive | revolting | sallow | scary | schrecklich | sepulchral | shadowy | shocking | sick | sickening | sickly | spectral | tallow-faced | terrible | terrific | terrifying | toneless | tremendous | ugly | uncanny | uncolored | unearthly | wan | ward | washed-out | waxen | weak | weird | whey-faced | white See Also | Ghastly In Webster's Dictionary \Ghast"ly\, a. [Compar. {Ghastlier}; superl.
{Ghastliest}.] [OE. gastlich, gastli, fearful, causing fear,
fr. gasten to terrify, AS. g[ae]stan. Cf. {Aghast}, {Gast},
{Gaze}, {Ghostly}.]
1. Like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid;
dismal.
Each turned his face with a ghastly pang.
--Coleridge.
His face was so ghastly that it could scarcely be
recognized. --Macaulay.
2. Horrible; shocking; dreadful; hideous.
Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail.
--Milton.
\Ghast"ly\, adv. In a ghastly manner; hideously. Staring full ghastly like a strangled man. --Shak. |
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