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- DictionaryGhast·ly/ˈɡastlē/
adjective
- 1. causing great horror or fear; frightful or macabre: "she was overcome with horror at the ghastly spectacle"
- 2. extremely unwell: "he always felt ghastly first thing in the morning"
1. a. : terrifyingly horrible to the senses : frightening. a ghastly crime. b. : intensely unpleasant, disagreeable, or objectionable. such a life seems ghastly in its emptiness and sterility Aldous Huxley. 2. : resembling a ghost. 3. obsolete : filled with fear. 4. : very great. a ghastly mistake. ghastliness noun. ghastly adverb. Synonyms.
Ghastly means dreadful, horrible, terrible, or shockingly frightful. Ghastly is more common in everyday usage in the U.K. than in the U.S., but it is used in the same ways in both places. It can be applied in a range of serious and not-so-serious ways.
GHASTLY definition: 1. unpleasant and shocking: 2. extremely bad or ugly: 3. If someone looks ghastly, they look very…. Learn more.
Something that's ghastly isn't just gross. It's shockingly, horrifyingly unpleasant — so gruesome and grisly that it makes you want to puke. An adjective used to describe that which inspires visions of death and feelings of revulsion, ghastly originated circa 1300.
GHASTLY meaning: 1. unpleasant and shocking: 2. extremely bad or ugly: 3. If someone looks ghastly, they look very…. Learn more.
1. informal very bad or unpleasant. 2. deathly pale; wan. 3. informal extremely unwell; ill: they felt ghastly after the party. 4. terrifying; horrible. adv. 5. unhealthily; sickly: ghastly pale. 6. archaic in a horrible or hideous manner.
adjective. , ghast·li·er, ghast·li·est. shockingly frightful or dreadful; horrible: a ghastly murder. resembling a ghost, especially in being very pale: a ghastly look to his face. Synonyms: cadaverous, pallid, deathlike. terrible; very bad: a ghastly error. adverb. Also ghast·li·ly [] ghast·i·ly []. in a ghastly manner; horribly; terribly.
If you describe someone or something as ghastly, you mean that you find them very unpleasant.
(informal) (of an experience or a situation) very bad; unpleasant synonym terrible. The weather was ghastly. It's all been a ghastly mistake. When she mentioned redundancies, for one ghastly moment, I thought she meant me. (informal) (of a person or thing) that you find unpleasant and dislike very much synonym horrible. her ghastly husband.
Aug 19, 2024 · Adjective. [ edit] ghastly ( comparative ghastlier, superlative ghastliest) Like a ghost in appearance; death-like; pale; pallid; dismal . Horrifyingly shocking . Extremely bad . The play was simply ghastly. Synonyms. [ edit] (sickly pale): See also Thesaurus:pallid. (horrifyingly shocking): lurid. Translations. [ edit]
