ghastly English

Meaning ghastly meaning

What does ghastly mean?

ghastly

— adjective (= grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre) 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

— adjective (= charnel, sepulchral) 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

Synonyms ghastly synonyms

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horrible

gruesome

grisly

awful

hideous

nasty

dreadful

frightful

abominable

terrible

vile

loathsome

detestable

atrocious

accursed

abhorrent

horrid

dreary

dismal

terrifying

macabre

dire

bleak

lurid

grim

appalling

wan

pale

ominous

horrifying

horrific

horribly

horrendous

eerie

charnel

unspeakably

terrific

terribly

sleazy

sick

shocking

sepulchral

pallid

odious

lowlife

low

lousy

hideously

gross

frightening

Topics ghastly topics

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Person Body

Skin

• What words describe the color of a person's skin when they are sick or afraid?
  pale anemic ashen bloodless cadaverous deathly flushed ghastly lurid pallid pallor pale-faced pale as death pale as a ghost pasty sallow wan white as a sheet go white turn blue