Result from Foreign Dictionaries (3 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Ghastly \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.
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Each turned his face with a ghastly pang.
--Coleridge.
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His face was so ghastly that it could scarcely be
recognized. --Macaulay.
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2. Horrible; shocking; dreadful; hideous.
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Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail.
--Milton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Ghastly \Ghast"ly\, adv.
In a ghastly manner; hideously.
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Staring full ghastly like a strangled man. --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ghastly
adj 1: 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" [syn: {ghastly}, {grim}, {grisly}, {gruesome},
{macabre}, {sick}]
2: 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" [syn:
{charnel}, {ghastly}, {sepulchral}]
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