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单词 ghastly
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ghastlyadj.

Brit. /ˈɡɑːs(t)li/, /ˈɡas(t)li/, U.S. /ˈɡæstli/
Forms: α. Middle English gast(e)lich(e, -lych, Middle English–1600s gastlie, Middle English–1700s gastly; β. 1500s– ghastly.
Etymology: < gast v.1 + -lich, -ly suffix1.
1.
a. †In early use: Causing terror, terrible (obsolete). In modern use (cf. 2): Suggestive of the kind of horror evoked by the sight of death or carnage; horrible, frightful, shocking.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being horrible > [adjective]
atelOE
grislya1150
atelichc1175
grisfula1300
ugly13..
hideous1303
horrible1303
ghastlyc1305
stout1338
horrendc1420
ugsomec1425
grisilc1440
execrable1490
uggle1499
horrious?1520
uglisome1530
ugglesome1561
gruesome1570
grisy1590
gashfulc1600
horrid1602
ghast1622
gashly1627
horrific1653
horrendous1661
horrorous1756
horrifying1791
horrorish1847
grauly1848
α.
c1305 St. Christopher 147 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 63 He was so gastliche & so moche þat hi þerste vneþe him iseo.
c1330 Arth. & Merl. 1494 A gastlich best he was to mete.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 250 He [Phœbus]..With gastly vois, that all it herde, The Romains in this wise answerde.
c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) ii. cxxiv. 124 Oothere tweyne..as gastlich as she, or more.
1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell 1316 By Hecates bowre..In Plutos gastlye towre.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 51 On the typ of rockish turret stood gastlye Celœno Vnlucky prophetesse.
1681 C. Cotton Wonders of Peake 31 Having with terror, here beheld..The gastly aspect of this dang rous place.
β. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. ii. sig. Dd2v As one with vew of ghastly feends affright.1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid i. iii. 8 Every stitch causeth [a scar]..which after healing sheweth ghastly.a1677 I. Barrow Serm. Several Occasions (1678) 61 He..standeth exposed to..horrid and ghastly dangers.1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub viii. 155 Certain gastly Notions, which..have served them pretty tolerably for a Devil.1812 J. Wilson Isle of Palms ii. 403 The ghastly dreams, That haunt the parting soul.1855 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Philip II of Spain I. iii. v. 370 His bloody head was set up opposite to that of his fellow-sufferer. For three hours these ghastly trophies remained exposed.1888 A. Jessopp Coming of Friars ii. 80 The ghastly frequency of the punishment by death tended to make people savage.
b. colloquial. Said hyperbolically of persons or things objectionable on various grounds: Shocking, ‘frightful’.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > state of being accursed > [adjective] > as everyday imprecation
stinking?c1225
misbegetc1325
banned1340
cursefula1382
wariablea1382
cursedc1386
biccheda1400
maledighta1400
vilea1400
accursedc1400
whoresona1450
remauldit?1473
execrable1490
infamous1490
unbicheda1500
jolly1534
bloodyc1540
mangy?1548
pagan1550
damned1563
misbegotten1571
putid1580
desperate1581
excremental1591
inexecrable?1594
sacred1594
putrid1628
sad1664
blasted1682
plagued1728
damnation1757
infernal1764
damn1775
pesky1775
deuced1782
shocking1798
blessed1806
darned1815
dinged1821
anointed1823
goldarn1830
darn1835
cussed1837
blamed1840
unholy1842
verdomde1850
bleeding1858
ghastly1860
goddam1861
blankety1872
blame1876
bastard1877
God-awful1877
dashed1881
sodding1881
bally1885
ungodly1887
blazing1888
dee1889
motherfucking1890
blistering1900
plurry1900
Christly1910
blinking1914
blethering1915
blighted1915
blighting1916
soddish1922
somethinged1922
effing1929
Jesus1929
dagnab1934
bastarding1944
Christless1947
mother-loving1948
mothering1951
pussyclaat1957
mother-grabbing1959
pigging1970
1860 W. M. Thackeray Four Georges ii, in Cornhill Mag. Aug. 181 There never was such a ghastly farce.
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. ii. i. 161 This pretence, much favoured by the lady-visitors, led to the ghastliest absurdities.
1890 G. Saintsbury in New Rev. Feb. 138 A most ghastly act of high treason is being committed.
1896 Daily News 21 July 3 To take measures to prevent the session being a ghastly failure.
1931 F. D. Grierson Mystery in Red iv. 70 Don't be a ghastly idiot.
1960 N. Mitford Don't tell Alfred vii. 76 Then he'd never have heard of this ghastly Yanky.
1960 N. Mitford Don't tell Alfred vii. 81 I bought her [sc. a tortoise] from those ghastly children.
1969 ‘C. Fremlin’ Possession i. 9 I know his mother, and she's frightful! She really is, Clare, I promise you: she's ghastly!
2.
a. (Influenced by ghost n.: cf. quot. 1711 .) Like a spectre, or a dead body; death-like, pale, wan. Of light: Lurid.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > dead body > [adjective]
ghastly1574
cadaverous1643
corpse-like1830
cadaveric1835
corpsy1883
the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > paleness > [adjective]
blatec1000
whiteOE
greena1275
blakec1275
bleykea1300
wana1300
palec1330
bleach1340
pale and wan (wan and pale)c1374
colourlessc1380
deadlyc1385
deadc1386
bloodlessc1450
earthlyc1460
ruddylessc1460
wan visaged?a1513
wanny1555
as pale or white as a clout1557
bleak1566
mealy1566
pale-faced1570
ghastly1574
white-faced1577
bleakish1581
pallid1590
whiggish1590
tallow-faced1592
maid-pale1597
lily1600
whey-colour1602
lew1611
roseless1611
Hippocratical1615
cadaverousa1661
Hippocratic1681
smock-faced1684
white-looked1690
livid1728
as white (or pale) as a sheet1752
squalid1753
deathly1791
etiolated1791
light-skinned1802
suety1803
shilpit1813
blanched1828
tallowy1830
suet-faced1834
pasty1836
tallowish1838
whey-faced1847
pasty-faced1848
aghast1850
waxen1853
complexionless1863
light-skin1877
lily-cheeked1877
lardy1879
wan-faced1881
exsanguinous1889
wheatish1950
the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > absence of colour > [adjective] > pale
blackeOE
blokec1200
blakec1275
fadec1290
bleykea1300
palisha1398
wanned1494
ashy?1541
wearish-coloured1548
wanny1555
wheyish1560
bleak1566
paly1568
ghastly1574
blankish1580
sick1599
palled1601
ashied1613
lurid1656
lunar1742
wax-like1748
ashen1808
unbrightened1827
waxy1835
peely-wally1895
waxen-hued1916
1574 A. Gilby tr. Test. Twelue Patriarches f. 13v Euen in sleepe some spice of imagined malice gnaweth him..making his bodie gastly and his minde afrighted with trouble.
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 331 And striuing with the pangs of death halfe a day, he then breathed out his gastly ghost.
1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. II. 83 That his watchings and abstinence had dried up his blood, and made him looke gastly.
1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Cock & Fox in Fables 232 His Friend..with a ghastly Look and doleful Cry, Said help me Brother, or this Night I die.
1711 J. Greenwood Ess. Pract. Eng. Gram. 276 Gastly..like a Ghost, or like a dead Corps; for a gastly Look is chiefly said of the Countenance of a dying Person.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 303. ¶15 That ghastly Light, by which the Fiends appear to one another in their Place of Torments.
1718 M. Prior Power 334 Ghastly with wounds, and lifeless on the bier.
1844 J. W. Carlyle Lett. I. 280 Touched by compassion for my ghastly appearance.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. iii. 30 A ghastly gleam rested upon the summit of the Ortler.
b. of a smile, a grin.
ΚΠ
1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 286 She tolde him, that there was lately buryed (neere to the place where she was honoured) a sinfull person, whiche so offended her eye with his gastly grinning, that [etc.].
1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram I. i. vi. 97 ‘What! eaves-dropping?’ said he, with a ghastly smile.
1837 E. Bulwer-Lytton Ernest Maltravers I. i. x. 105 With a ghastly grin.
c. said of immaterial things.
ΚΠ
1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 31 Unlike the voice With which our pallid race hold ghastly talk.
1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun I. xxv. 281 A ghastly emotion rose up out of the depths of the young count's heart.
1879 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times II. xxv. 257 A ghastly semblance of faith in the possibility of a peaceful arrangement.
1884 Punch 18 Oct. 190/1 The grim refrain to their ghastly minstrelsy.
3. Full of fear, inspired by fear. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > fear > [adjective] > inspired by fear
grislyc1320
ghastly1590
ghastful1720
gruesome1869
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. i. sig. Cc5v The Dame halfe dedd Through suddein feare and ghastly drerihedd.
1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida iii. sig. E2 Gastly amazement, with vpstarted haire, Shall hurry on before, and vsher vs.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. i. 314 Why are you drawn? Wherefore this ghastly looking? View more context for this quotation
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 207 In great hast and feare with gastly amazed lookes.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

ghastlyadv.

Brit. /ˈɡɑːs(t)li/, /ˈɡas(t)li/, U.S. /ˈɡæstli/
Forms: 1500s–1600s gastly, 1600s– ghastly.
Etymology: < ghastly adj.
1. Qualifying a verb:
a. Frightfully, horribly; with a deathlike look.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > ugliness > [adverb] > hideously
ghastlya1616
hideously1634
frightfully1729
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iii. ii. 170 His eye-balles..Staring full gastly, like a strangled man. View more context for this quotation
1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab vii. 94 My murdered children's mute and eyeless sculls Glared ghastily upon me.
1837 F. Marryat Snarleyyow (ed. 2) II. x. 203 Vanslyperken grinned ghastly.
b. In a frightened manner, timidly.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > fear > timidity > [adverb]
arghlyc1000
eislichec1175
faintly1297
fearedly1488
sheepishly1528
fearfully1548
timorously1548
tremblingly1552
sheepish1581
ghastly1589
frightfully1621
timidly1656
meticulouslya1682
fearingly1820
fearsomely1876
scarily1880
tremulously1886
mousily1910
1589 R. Robinson Golden Mirrour sig. B.2v And at the gase I gastly quaking stood.
1599 Warning for Faire Women ii. 706 Why stop you on the sudden? why go you not? What makes you looke so gastly towards the house?
a1628 F. Greville Life of Sidney (1651) xii. 145 He saw a poor Souldier carryed along..gastly casting up his eyes at the bottle.
1681 H. More Plain Expos. Daniel 92 None understood what the matter was with me, that I lookt so sadly and ghastly on it.
2. Qualifying an adjective ghastly pale: deathly pale. ghastly sick: †sick unto death; also, frightfully sick.
ΚΠ
1653 H. More Antidote against Atheism in Coll. Philos. Writings (1712) iii. x. 118 His Nose was entire and full, not sharp, as in those that are gastly sick, or quite dead.
1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 28 Her face was ghastly pale, and perhaps rendered more so by the bluish light of the fire.
1862 J. W. Carlyle Lett. III. 127 I am less ghastly sick.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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