adj. Function: adjective
1 disturbingly frightening or repellent in appearance or aspect FF1C; the ghastly sight of burned and rotting bodies FF1E;
Synonyms: grim, grisly, gruesome, hideous, horrible, horrid, horrifying, lurid, macabre, terrible, terrifying
Related Words: 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 FF1C; a ghastly form slightly visible through the fog FF1E;
Synonyms: cadaverous, corpselike, deathlike, ghostlike, ghostly, shadowy, spectral
Related Words: ashen, livid, lurid, pale; uncanny, weird; gruesome, haggard, macabre; dim, faint, weak; charnel, mortuary, sepulchral