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Ghastly

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Adjective

1. ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick

shockingly repellent; inspiring horror

Example Sentences:
'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'

2. charnel, ghastly, sepulchral

gruesomely indicative of death or the dead

Example Sentences:
'a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones'
'ghastly shrieks'
'the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Ghastly

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adjective -lier or -liest
1. informal
very bad or unpleasant
2. 
deathly pale; wan
3. informal
extremely unwell; ill
they felt ghastly after the party
4. 
terrifying; horrible
adverb
5. 
unhealthily; sickly
ghastly pale
6. archaic
in a horrible or hideous manner

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Ghastly

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adjectiveWord forms: ˈghastlier or ˈghastliest
1. 
horrible; frightful
2. 
ghostlike; pale; haggard
3.  Informal
very bad or unpleasant

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Ghastly

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adj. ghast·li·er, ghast·li·est
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).

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