Ghastly

What do we mean by ghastly?

Causing shock, revulsion, or horror; terrifying. adjective

Resembling a ghost; pale or pallid. adjective

Extremely unpleasant or bad. adjective

In a ghastly manner; dreadfully; hideously; with a deathlike aspect.

Dreadful or deathly in aspect or look; deathlike; haggard; shocking.

Deathly in import or suggestion; morally dreadful or shocking.

Synonyms Ghastly, Grim, Grisly, Haggard, Hideous; pale, wan, cadaverous, frightful. Hideous may apply to sound, as a hideous noise; the others not. All in modern use apply primarily to sight and secondarily to mental perception, except haggard, which connotes sight only. Ghastly, as it is most commonly used, means deathly pale, deathlike, referring to the countenance, but its signification has been extended to denote anything that is suggestive of death, or even repulsive and shocking, as Milton's “mangled with ghastly wounds” (P. L., vi. 368), “a ghastly smile” (Milton, P. L., ii. 846), a ghastly jest. Grim characterizes a rigid cast of countenance, indicating a severe, stern, or even ruthless disposition. Grisly refers to the whole form or aspect, especially when dark, forbidding, or such as to inspire terror. Haggard adds to the idea of paleness of countenance that of being wasted by famine or protracted mental agony. Hideous, used of looks, applies to the whole form or scene, and means simply repulsive, extremely unpleasant to see: as, hideous features; a hideous scene. See pale.

In a ghastly manner; hideously. adverb

Like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid; dismal. adjective

Horrible; shocking; dreadful; hideous. adjective

Horrifyingly shocking. adjective

Extremely bad. adjective

In a ghastly manner. adverb

Shockingly repellent; inspiring horror adjective

Gruesomely indicative of death or the dead adjective

Like a ghost in appearance; death-like; pale; pallid; dismal.

Horrifyingly shocking.

Extremely bad.

1. shockingly frightful or dreadful; horrible. 2. resembling a ghost, especially in being very pale. 3. terrible; very bad. Urban Dictionary

Intoxicated, out of control, extremely drunk, high, etc. Urban Dictionary

An emo person. usually just for the aesthetic and acts weird and edgy. Urban Dictionary

Resulting stench after polluting a gas station bathroom with oyster stew that ran right through Urban Dictionary

A state of which you are so tired you are beyond the point of being “gassed” Urban Dictionary

You gettin a blow job from beyond the grave Urban Dictionary

Interior decoration of mechanical perfection, lacking all life or connection to its owner. Furniture that you don't dare use, since actual use would destroy the design effect. Urban Dictionary

An American girl who can only be described as shockingly repellent. Urban Dictionary

Decor and furnishings that are untouched by human hands. You don't dare use it lest you spoil the effect. Plastic slipcovers, plastic 'authentic reproductions' and sterile decor all qualify as ghastly good taste. Urban Dictionary

A man's ass crack. It is a euphemism used by characters from the novel, "Noble House" by James Clavell. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to ghastly:
ghastly, ghostly, gastly.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word ghastly:
skulduggery, shudder, hiccup, valkyrie, bespoke, donkey, sumo, spectacle, occurrences, clown, screaming, horror, halloween, mysteries, weird, mistake, wounds, ones, happening, phi, kong, reviewer, tales, worst, wound, creatures, ghost, monster, pale, tale, kids, clothes, funeral, fate, murder, alive, johnny, sees, crimes, reporter, comics, comic, kill, face, manner, thing, think, dark.

Words that rhyme with ghastly:
lastly, vastly, fastly, steadfastly, astley.

Adjectives that are often used to describe ghastly:
full, most, least, wild.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective ghastly:
face, smile, sight, spectacle, thing, scene, look, wounds, pallor, wound, light, appearance, mistake, business, failure, grin, pale, death, tragedy, figure, story, silence, experience, picture, faces, hue, expression, place, tale, head, night, horror, war, countenance, details, features, truth, object, crime, mess, scenes, fear, joke, paleness, manner, thought, sights, nightmare, news, glare, trophies, burden, fate, moment, dream, stare, crew, figures, accident, dew, stories, fashion, corpse, terror, affair, vision, whiteness, horrors, procession, trophy, image, apparition, reality, attempt, sound, mockery, spectre, parody, sort, remains, images, relics, aspect, deed, crimes, laugh, farce.

Consonant match to ghastly:
ghostly, guest law.

Words that sound like ghastly:
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