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Definitions for: Ghastly [adj] 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"
[adj] 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"
Webster (1913) Definition: 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.
Each turned his face with a ghastly pang.
--Coleridge.
His face was so ghastly that it could scarcely be
recognized. --Macaulay.
2. Horrible; shocking; dreadful; hideous.
Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail.
--Milton.
Ghast"ly, adv.
In a ghastly manner; hideously.
Staring full ghastly like a strangled man. --Shak.
Synonyms: alarming, charnel, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, offensive, sepulchral
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