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- Dictionaryghastly/ˈɡɑːs(t)li/
adjective
- 1. causing great horror or fear: "one of the most ghastly crimes ever committed" Similar Opposite
- 2. extremely unwell: "she had sobered up but she felt ghastly" Similar Opposite
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GHASTLY definition: 1. unpleasant and shocking: 2. extremely bad or ugly: 3. If someone looks ghastly, they look very…. Learn more.
Ghastly definition: shockingly frightful or dreadful; horrible. See examples of GHASTLY used in a sentence.
Definitions of ghastly. adjective. shockingly repellent; inspiring horror. “ ghastly wounds” synonyms: grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick. alarming. frightening because of an awareness of danger. adjective. gruesomely indicative of death or the dead. “ ghastly shrieks” synonyms: charnel, sepulchral. offensive.
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.
adjective. If you describe someone or something as ghastly, you mean that you find them very unpleasant. [informal] ...a mother accompanied by her ghastly unruly child. It was the worst week of my life. It was ghastly. ...a particularly ghastly murder. Synonyms: gruesome, shocking, terrible, terrifying More Synonyms of ghastly.
(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.
1. Causing shock, revulsion, or horror; terrifying: a ghastly murder. 2. Resembling a ghost; pale or pallid. 3. Extremely unpleasant or bad: "in the most abominable passage of his ghastly little book" (Conor Cruise O'Brien). [Alteration (influenced by ghost) of Middle English gastli, from gasten, to terrify; see aghast .] ghast′li·ness n.
Ghastly definition: shockingly frightful or dreadful; horrible. See examples of GHASTLY used in a sentence.
adjective. uk / ˈɡɑːstli / us. Add to word list. very bad or unpleasant: a ghastly mistake. a ghastly man. (Definition of ghastly from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Translations of ghastly. in Chinese (Traditional) 可怕的, 令人震驚的, 極壞的… See more. in Chinese (Simplified) 可怕的, 令人震惊的, 极坏的… See more. in Spanish.
Origin of Ghastly. From a derivation of Old English gǣstan (“to torment, frighten”) with the suffix -lic. Equivalent to ghast / gast + -ly. Spelling with 'gh' developed 16th century from confusion with ghost; cf. also ghostly. From Wiktionary.
