ghastly

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}]
    

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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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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126 Moby Thesaurus words for "ghastly":
      achromatic, achromic, ailing, anemic, appalling, ashen, ashy,
      astounding, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, bad, bled white,
      bloodless, blue, cadaverous, charnel, chloranemic, colorless,
      corpselike, dead, deadly, deadly pale, deathlike, deathly,
      deathly pale, dim, dimmed, dingy, dire, direful, discolored,
      disgusting, drawn, dread, dreaded, dreadful, dull, eerie,
      etiolated, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, faded, faint,
      fallow, fell, flat, forbidding, formidable, foul, frightening,
      frightful, ghostlike, ghostly, ghoulish, gray, grim, grisly, gross,
      gruesome, haggard, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific,
      horrifying, hueless, hypochromic, ill, lackluster, leaden, livid,
      loathsome, lurid, lusterless, macabre, mat, mealy, morbid,
      mortuary, muddy, nauseant, nauseating, neutral, offensive, pale,
      pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pasty, redoubtable, repellent,
      repelling, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sallow, scary,
      schrecklich, sepulchral, shadowy, shocking, sick, sickening,
      sickly, spectral, tallow-faced, terrible, terrific, terrifying,
      toneless, tremendous, ugly, uncanny, uncolored, unearthly, wan,
      ward, washed-out, waxen, weak, weird, whey-faced, white