GHASTLY

adj. 1 dreadful, awful, terrible, terrifying, frightful, hideous, horrible, horrendous, horrid, horrifying, grim, grisly, loathsome, gruesome, ugly, repellent, repulsive, shocking, appalling, Colloq gross, scary He was involved in a ghastly accident 2 grim, cadaverous, haggard, ashen, wan, pale, pallid, pasty(-faced), drawn, livid, ghostly, spectral, macabre She looked ghastly after the surgery 3 awful, bad, terrible, ill, ailing, sick We felt ghastly after eating the undercooked chicken