Ghastly

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ghastly \Ghast"ly\, adv.
     In a ghastly manner; hideously.
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           Staring full ghastly like a strangled man. --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ghastly \Ghast"ly\, a. [Compar. {Ghastlier}; superl.
     {Ghastliest}.] [OE. gastlich, gastli, fearful, causing fear,
     fr. gasten to terrify, AS. g[ae]stan. Cf. {Aghast}, {Gast},
     {Gaze}, {Ghostly}.]
     1. Like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid;
        dismal.
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              Each turned his face with a ghastly pang.
                                                    --Coleridge.
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              His face was so ghastly that it could scarcely be
              recognized.                           --Macaulay.
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     2. Horrible; shocking; dreadful; hideous.
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              Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail.
                                                    --Milton.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ghastly
       adj 1: shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; "ghastly wounds";
              "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of
              burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome
              evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war
              and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures
              conceived by madmen" [syn: {grim}, {grisly}, {gruesome},
               {macabre}]
       2: gruesomely indicative of death or the dead; "a charnel smell
          came from the chest filled with dead men's bones";
          "ghastly shrieks"; "the sepulchral darkness of the
          catacombs" [syn: {charnel}, {sepulchral}]
       [also: {ghastliest}, {ghastlier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  126 Moby Thesaurus words for "ghastly":
     achromatic, achromic, ailing, anemic, appalling, ashen, ashy,
     astounding, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, bad, bled white,
     bloodless, blue, cadaverous, charnel, chloranemic, colorless,
     corpselike, dead, deadly, deadly pale, deathlike, deathly,
     deathly pale, dim, dimmed, dingy, dire, direful, discolored,
     disgusting, drawn, dread, dreaded, dreadful, dull, eerie,
     etiolated, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, faded, faint,
     fallow, fell, flat, forbidding, formidable, foul, frightening,
     frightful, ghostlike, ghostly, ghoulish, gray, grim, grisly, gross,
     gruesome, haggard, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific,
     horrifying, hueless, hypochromic, ill, lackluster, leaden, livid,
     loathsome, lurid, lusterless, macabre, mat, mealy, morbid,
     mortuary, muddy, nauseant, nauseating, neutral, offensive, pale,
     pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pasty, redoubtable, repellent,
     repelling, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sallow, scary,
     schrecklich, sepulchral, shadowy, shocking, sick, sickening,
     sickly, spectral, tallow-faced, terrible, terrific, terrifying,
     toneless, tremendous, ugly, uncanny, uncolored, unearthly, wan,
     ward, washed-out, waxen, weak, weird, whey-faced, white