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Definition of ghastly in English: ghastlyadjectiveghastlier, ghastliest ˈɡɑːs(t)liˈɡæs(t)li 1Causing great horror or fear. one of the most ghastly crimes ever committed Example sentencesExamples - What began as a simple missing persons inquiry developed into an international murder hunt described as one of the most ghastly investigations ever undertaken by Greater Manchester Police.
- Their ghastly killings still strike fear, dread and disgust in the communities they pillaged.
- It was not just the ghastly silence that inspired fear.
- The door swung open, and poor Jelvin's mother's eyes beheld the most ghastly sight they would ever see.
- The more spectacular and ghastly the terrorist deed, the greater the concentration of minds.
- But as a film it takes us inside a country in ghastly strife and serves to remind us that the horrors outside what's presented in the film were a thousand times worse than what we see.
- Soon, however, the ghastly spectacle was to erupt on the streets itself.
- There is no way for us to escape this horrible, ghastly death.
- India has had plenty of ghastly crimes, but this was arguably the worst of the lot.
- But they vowed: ‘We will not rest until the monster responsible for this ghastly crime is brought to justice and is behind bars.’
- Thus, even the book's most ghastly events are stripped of their horror, and so of their dramatic power as well.
- Matching the words of the song to the images, we begin to ponder a possible explanation - from a ‘crime passionelle’ to a ghastly workplace accident, or even a bizarre suicide.
- So many reports were prepared of the ghastly crime against humanity and still that work is going on.
- But when we looked up, the fires and smoke shifted from ghastly spectacle to specific human horror.
- For others it was a slaughter of the innocents, a ghastly reminder of the horrors and insanity of war.
- But the horror was just too ghastly to verbalize.
- It was a ghastly sight, indeed hardly ever paralleled.
- When perpetrators of ghastly crimes are tried, we almost always hear the victims' families' calls for vengeance.
- Transfixed, discomforted, we can't turn away from the spectacle as it lurches into even more ghastly territory.
- Much of what we see is ghastly and all too real; terrible anguish and sorrow.
Synonyms terrible, frightful, horrible, grim, awful, dire frightening, terrifying, horrifying, alarming distressing, shocking, appalling, harrowing dreadful, fearful, hideous, horrendous, monstrous, unspeakable, gruesome, tragic, calamitous, grievous, grisly serious, severe, grave, very bad, grievous, dreadful, terrible, awful, frightful, dire unforgivable, inexcusable, indefensible, reprehensible, disgraceful, shameful archaic or humorous parlous 2Extremely unwell. she had sobered up but she felt ghastly Synonyms ill, unwell, washed out, peaky sick, queasy, nauseous, nauseated, green about the gills British off, off colour, poorly informal rough, lousy, rotten, terrible, awful, horrible, dreadful, crummy British informal grotty, ropy Scottish informal wabbit, peely-wally Australian/New Zealand informal crook vulgar slang crappy dated queer, seedy rare peaked, peakish - 2.1 Deathly white.
Example sentencesExamples - Pale full pink lips hardly contrasted to the ghastly white fair skin on his face.
- His face was ghastly white, tears streaming down his face.
- The blood flowed and showed ghastly red against his pale skin.
- His face was ghastly white and his eyes were black and beady.
- In the span of a few short minutes, her skin had become a ghastly shade of blue and she felt deathly cold.
- The blue vein was extremely easy to see in his ghastly pale skin.
- Her skin had a ghastly gray pallor, with dark smudges of sleeplessness under her eyes.
- His black hair was drawn up in thick spikes, and he had a sallow face which was a ghastly white.
- Every time I've looked in the mirror, I'm this pale, ghastly thing.
- Slowly, Sam turned his head to catch a glimpse of ghastly pale skin and long white hair decorated around a bright gem-like eye.
- His eyes were a bright red, and his skin was ghastly pale.
- After he left her go, her face turned a ghastly color - nearly white.
- There was no mistaking those ghastly eyes and pale white skin.
- From her ghastly pale face, Tom can tell that she was not healthy at all.
- Her lips were shrivelled and pale, her skin a ghastly white.
- Her face was pale and ghastly, her eyes leaking tears faster and faster.
- If her face was pale before, it was nothing compared to the ghastly appearance at the moment.
- The flow of tears finally ended and some color returned to her ghastly, pale face.
- Her mother's eyes widened when she read the signature, and her face turned a ghastly shade of white.
- Her right arm came up, and pushed a hidden button on her forehead, and the helmet disappeared, replaced by a ghastly pale white head with green hair falling down her shoulders.
Synonyms pale, white, pallid, pasty, pasty-faced, wan, colourless, anaemic, bloodless, washed out, peaky, peakish, ashen, ashen-faced, ashy, chalky, chalk-white, grey, whitish, white-faced, whey-faced, waxen, waxy, blanched, drained, pinched, green, sickly, sallow, as white as a sheet, as white as a ghost, deathly pale, cadaverous, corpse-like, ghostlike, spectral informal like death warmed up Scottish informal peely-wally rare livid, etiolated, lymphatic
3informal Very objectionable, bad, or unpleasant. Example sentencesExamples - The way Mrs. Keates was carrying on about her hair and her dress and her ghastly perfume, you would think she was being presented to the King himself rather than just going to supper.
- He is fixed on this ghastly image, this odd aesthetic object.
- Rose expected the smell to be ghastly and terrible, but it wasn't.
- So if that was a nightmare this will be too ghastly too contemplate.
- Therefore, I shall proceed forthwith to the essentials of the matter and preclude contemplation of such ghastly departures from proper form.
- One Kansas farmer lined his field with ghastly wind ornaments, rough cut from sheet metal and painted with slogans mocking liberal causes and government tyranny.
- With his ghastly haircut and appalling dress sense, and his strange mannerisms, he is, nevertheless a giant of a man.
- Such moments are unpleasant but are not as ghastly as having to do it deliberately.
- She is confined to her bed with ghastly old-fashioned furniture and state-supermarket fare.
- The prospect of the team splitting up and going their separate ways is too ghastly to contemplate.
- Hopefully it will embarrass those involved as they will have to travel into school on a ghastly coloured pink bus.
- I pointed out that apart from the colours being ghastly, they were also dangerous for children.
- I can't get the images out of my mind and this ghastly sick feeling inside my stomach.
- It would be too ghastly to contemplate the outcome of such an action.
- A ghastly terrible obscene waste of human life.
- When I started to take photographs they were all ghastly, except by accident.
- It may sound simple but the implications of any fuel price hike are always too ghastly to contemplate.
- She works in the kitchen, and sometimes she cleans the chamber pots in the house, which I would find downright ghastly and appalling.
- Coupled with a sincere belief in her innate cooking sense, this lack resulted in some spectacularly ghastly meals.
- Oh dear; why on earth did they pick such a ghastly canary yellow colour?
Synonyms unpleasant, objectionable, offensive, disagreeable, distasteful, displeasing, unacceptable, off-putting, undesirable, obnoxious nasty, disgusting, awful, terrible, dreadful, frightful, foul, repulsive, repellent, repugnant, revolting, abhorrent, loathsome, hateful, odious, detestable, reprehensible, deplorable, appalling, insufferable, intolerable, despicable, contemptible, beyond the pale, vile, obscene, unsavoury, unpalatable, sickening, nauseating, nauseous, noxious informal horrible, horrid, sick-making British informal beastly archaic disgustful, loathly rare exceptionable, rebarbative
Origin Middle English: from obsolete gast 'terrify', from Old English gǣstan, of Germanic origin; related to ghost. The gh spelling is by association with ghost. The sense 'objectionable' dates from the mid 19th century. aghast from Late Middle English: Gast (originally gaestan) was an Old English word meaning ‘frighten or terrify’. It was still being used in this sense in Shakespeare's day: ‘Or whether gasted by the noise I made, Full suddenly he fled’ (King Lear). This gave rise to agast, which had the same meaning. The spelling aghast (probably influenced by the spelling of ghost) was originally Scottish but became generally used after 1700. Ghastly (Middle English) comes from the same word. The sense ‘objectionable’ dates from the mid 19th century.
Definition of ghastly in US English: ghastlyadjectiveˈɡas(t)lēˈɡæs(t)li 1Causing great horror or fear; frightful or macabre. she was overcome with horror at the ghastly spectacle Example sentencesExamples - Much of what we see is ghastly and all too real; terrible anguish and sorrow.
- When perpetrators of ghastly crimes are tried, we almost always hear the victims' families' calls for vengeance.
- Matching the words of the song to the images, we begin to ponder a possible explanation - from a ‘crime passionelle’ to a ghastly workplace accident, or even a bizarre suicide.
- Their ghastly killings still strike fear, dread and disgust in the communities they pillaged.
- There is no way for us to escape this horrible, ghastly death.
- It was not just the ghastly silence that inspired fear.
- So many reports were prepared of the ghastly crime against humanity and still that work is going on.
- The door swung open, and poor Jelvin's mother's eyes beheld the most ghastly sight they would ever see.
- Soon, however, the ghastly spectacle was to erupt on the streets itself.
- But as a film it takes us inside a country in ghastly strife and serves to remind us that the horrors outside what's presented in the film were a thousand times worse than what we see.
- For others it was a slaughter of the innocents, a ghastly reminder of the horrors and insanity of war.
- What began as a simple missing persons inquiry developed into an international murder hunt described as one of the most ghastly investigations ever undertaken by Greater Manchester Police.
- It was a ghastly sight, indeed hardly ever paralleled.
- But they vowed: ‘We will not rest until the monster responsible for this ghastly crime is brought to justice and is behind bars.’
- India has had plenty of ghastly crimes, but this was arguably the worst of the lot.
- The more spectacular and ghastly the terrorist deed, the greater the concentration of minds.
- But the horror was just too ghastly to verbalize.
- But when we looked up, the fires and smoke shifted from ghastly spectacle to specific human horror.
- Thus, even the book's most ghastly events are stripped of their horror, and so of their dramatic power as well.
- Transfixed, discomforted, we can't turn away from the spectacle as it lurches into even more ghastly territory.
Synonyms terrible, frightful, horrible, grim, awful, dire serious, severe, grave, very bad, grievous, dreadful, terrible, awful, frightful, dire 2Extremely unwell. he always felt ghastly first thing in the morning Synonyms ill, unwell, washed out, peaky - 2.1 Deathly white or pallid.
as submodifier he turned ghastly pale and rushed to the bathroom Example sentencesExamples - Slowly, Sam turned his head to catch a glimpse of ghastly pale skin and long white hair decorated around a bright gem-like eye.
- From her ghastly pale face, Tom can tell that she was not healthy at all.
- Every time I've looked in the mirror, I'm this pale, ghastly thing.
- Pale full pink lips hardly contrasted to the ghastly white fair skin on his face.
- The blood flowed and showed ghastly red against his pale skin.
- Her skin had a ghastly gray pallor, with dark smudges of sleeplessness under her eyes.
- In the span of a few short minutes, her skin had become a ghastly shade of blue and she felt deathly cold.
- Her face was pale and ghastly, her eyes leaking tears faster and faster.
- His black hair was drawn up in thick spikes, and he had a sallow face which was a ghastly white.
- His face was ghastly white and his eyes were black and beady.
- Her right arm came up, and pushed a hidden button on her forehead, and the helmet disappeared, replaced by a ghastly pale white head with green hair falling down her shoulders.
- His face was ghastly white, tears streaming down his face.
- His eyes were a bright red, and his skin was ghastly pale.
- The flow of tears finally ended and some color returned to her ghastly, pale face.
- If her face was pale before, it was nothing compared to the ghastly appearance at the moment.
- Her lips were shrivelled and pale, her skin a ghastly white.
- The blue vein was extremely easy to see in his ghastly pale skin.
- There was no mistaking those ghastly eyes and pale white skin.
- After he left her go, her face turned a ghastly color - nearly white.
- Her mother's eyes widened when she read the signature, and her face turned a ghastly shade of white.
Synonyms pale, white, pallid, pasty, pasty-faced, wan, colourless, anaemic, bloodless, washed out, peaky, peakish, ashen, ashen-faced, ashy, chalky, chalk-white, grey, whitish, white-faced, whey-faced, waxen, waxy, blanched, drained, pinched, green, sickly, sallow, as white as a sheet, as white as a ghost, deathly pale, cadaverous, corpse-like, ghostlike, spectral
3informal Very objectionable, bad, or unpleasant. we had to wear ghastly old-fashioned dresses Example sentencesExamples - With his ghastly haircut and appalling dress sense, and his strange mannerisms, he is, nevertheless a giant of a man.
- When I started to take photographs they were all ghastly, except by accident.
- Hopefully it will embarrass those involved as they will have to travel into school on a ghastly coloured pink bus.
- It would be too ghastly to contemplate the outcome of such an action.
- She is confined to her bed with ghastly old-fashioned furniture and state-supermarket fare.
- I pointed out that apart from the colours being ghastly, they were also dangerous for children.
- Such moments are unpleasant but are not as ghastly as having to do it deliberately.
- Coupled with a sincere belief in her innate cooking sense, this lack resulted in some spectacularly ghastly meals.
- A ghastly terrible obscene waste of human life.
- The way Mrs. Keates was carrying on about her hair and her dress and her ghastly perfume, you would think she was being presented to the King himself rather than just going to supper.
- Oh dear; why on earth did they pick such a ghastly canary yellow colour?
- Rose expected the smell to be ghastly and terrible, but it wasn't.
- One Kansas farmer lined his field with ghastly wind ornaments, rough cut from sheet metal and painted with slogans mocking liberal causes and government tyranny.
- I can't get the images out of my mind and this ghastly sick feeling inside my stomach.
- He is fixed on this ghastly image, this odd aesthetic object.
- The prospect of the team splitting up and going their separate ways is too ghastly to contemplate.
- It may sound simple but the implications of any fuel price hike are always too ghastly to contemplate.
- So if that was a nightmare this will be too ghastly too contemplate.
- Therefore, I shall proceed forthwith to the essentials of the matter and preclude contemplation of such ghastly departures from proper form.
- She works in the kitchen, and sometimes she cleans the chamber pots in the house, which I would find downright ghastly and appalling.
Synonyms unpleasant, objectionable, offensive, disagreeable, distasteful, displeasing, unacceptable, off-putting, undesirable, obnoxious
Origin Middle English: from obsolete gast ‘terrify’, from Old English gǣstan, of Germanic origin; related to ghost. The gh spelling is by association with ghost. The sense ‘objectionable’ dates from the mid 19th century. |