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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.
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 definition: shockingly frightful or dreadful; horrible. See examples of GHASTLY used in a sentence.
Something that's ghastly isn't just gross. It's shockingly, horrifyingly unpleasant — so gruesome and grisly that it makes you want to puke.
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.
5 days ago · ghastly ( comparative ghastlier, superlative ghastliest) Like a ghost in appearance; death-like; pale; pallid; dismal . Horrifyingly shocking . Extremely bad . The play was simply ghastly.
adjective. /ˈɡɑːstli/ /ˈɡæstli/ (comparative ghastlier, superlative ghastliest) (of an event) very frightening and unpleasant, because it involves pain, death, etc. synonym horrible. a ghastly crime/murder. She woke up in the middle of a ghastly nightmare. Definitions on the go.
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.
If you describe someone or something as ghastly, you mean that you find them very unpleasant or shocking. [ informal ] ...a mother accompanied by her ghastly, unruly child.
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.
