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ghast·ly
 ghastly
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- pronunciation:
- gaest
li
- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| inflections: |
ghastlier, ghastliest |
| definition 1: |
inducing fear; terrifying.
He was thankful for waking up from his ghastly nightmare.She turned pale at hearing the ghastly story he told her about what happened in the war.- synonyms:
- awesome, awful, dreadful, fearful, frightful, grisly, gruesome, horrible, spectral, terrible, terrifying
- similar words:
- dread, gory, macabre, tremendous
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| definition 2: |
having a deathlike color or appearance; pale.
- synonyms:
- ashen, cadaverous, drawn, ghostly, pale, pallid, pasty, spectral, wan
- antonyms:
- healthy, ruddy
- similar words:
- haggard, white
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| definition 3: |
exceptionally bad; worthless.
a ghastly novel- synonyms:
- awful, dreadful, horrible, terrible, worthless
- antonyms:
- excellent
- similar words:
- bad, horrid, inferior
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| related words: |
appalling, ashen, atrocious, dire, green, grim, heinous, hideous, horrendous, horrible, livid, terrible, unearthly |
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| derivation: |
ghastliness (n.) |
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