GHASTLY


Meaning of GHASTLY in English

adjective

1.

disturbingly frightening or repellent in appearance or aspect

the ghastly sight of burned and rotting bodies

Synonyms: grim, grisly, gruesome, hideous, horrible, horrid, horrifying, lurid, macabre, terrible, terrifying

Related Word: appalling, awful, dreadful, frightening, frightful, shocking; disgustful, disgusting, nauseant, nauseating, sickening

Contrasted words: appealing, attractive, charming, pleasant, touching; acceptable, bearable; trivial, unimportant

2.

resembling or suggestive of a ghost

a ghastly form slightly visible through the fog

Synonyms: cadaverous, corpselike, deathlike, ghostlike, ghostly, shadowy, spectral

Related Word: ashen, livid, lurid, pale; uncanny, weird; gruesome, haggard, macabre; dim, faint, weak; charnel, mortuary, sepulchral

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