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Definitions for Ghastly
[1] shockingly frightful or dreadful; horrible: a ghastly murder.
[2] resembling a ghost, especially in being very pale: a ghastly look to his face.
[3] terrible; very bad: a ghastly error.
[4] Also ghast·li·ly, ghast·i·ly. in a ghastly manner; horribly; terribly.
[5] with a deathlike quality.
[6] informal very bad or unpleasant
[7] deathly pale; wan
[8] informal extremely unwell; ill they felt ghastly after the party
[9] terrifying; horrible
[10] unhealthily; sickly ghastly pale
[11] archaic in a horrible or hideous manner
Words related to Ghastly
sickening, horrid, ghostly, macabre, frightening, horrendous, terrible, appalling, frightful, ghoulish, unpleasant, grisly, terrifying, horrible, awful, gruesome, shocking, hideous, grim, lurid
Words nearby Ghastly
ghardaïa, gharial, gharry, ghast, ghastful, ghastly, ghat, ghats, ghaut, ghazali, ghazi
Origin of Ghastly
1275–1325; Middle English gastly; see ghast, -ly
Other words from Ghastly
ghast·li·ness , noun
Word origin for Ghastly
Old English gāstlīc spiritual; see ghostly
Synonyms for Ghastly
appalling, awful, frightening, frightful, ghostly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, gruesome, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, lurid, macabre, shocking, sickening, terrible, terrifying, unpleasant, abhorrent, anemic, ashen, bloodless, cadaverous, corpselike, deathlike, dim, disgusting, faint, funereal, haggard, livid, loathsome, mortuary, nauseating, offensive, pallid, repellent, repulsive, sepulchral, spectral, supernatural, uncanny, unearthly, unnatural, wan, weak, wraithlike