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- Dictionaryghast·ly/ˈɡastlē/
adjective
- 1. causing great horror or fear; frightful or macabre: "she was overcome with horror at the ghastly spectacle" Similar Opposite
- 2. extremely unwell: "he always felt ghastly first thing in the morning" Similar Opposite
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The meaning of GHASTLY is terrifyingly horrible to the senses : frightening. How to use ghastly in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Ghastly.
GHASTLY definition: 1. unpleasant and shocking: 2. extremely bad or ugly: 3. If someone looks ghastly, they look very…. Learn more.
Ghastly means dreadful, horrible, terrible, or shockingly frightful. Ghastly is more common in everyday usage in the U.K. than in the U.S., but it is used in the same ways in both places. It can be applied in a range of serious and not-so-serious ways. Ghastly can also mean resembling a ghost due to being very pale.
Something that's ghastly isn't just gross. It's shockingly, horrifyingly unpleasant — so gruesome and grisly that it makes you want to puke.
If you describe someone or something as ghastly, you mean that you find them very unpleasant.
(informal) (of an experience or a situation) very bad; unpleasant synonym terrible. The weather was ghastly. It's all been a ghastly mistake. When she mentioned redundancies, for one ghastly moment, I thought she meant me. (informal) (of a person or thing) that you find unpleasant and dislike very much synonym horrible. her ghastly husband.
1. Causing shock, revulsion, or horror; terrifying: a ghastly murder. 2. Resembling a ghost; pale or pallid. 3. Extremely unpleasant or bad: "in the most abominable passage of his ghastly little book" (Conor Cruise O'Brien). [Alteration (influenced by ghost) of Middle English gastli, from gasten, to terrify; see aghast .] ghast′li·ness n.
If you describe someone or something as ghastly, you mean that you find them very unpleasant or shocking. [ informal ] ...a mother accompanied by her ghastly, unruly child.
Ghastly definition: shockingly frightful or dreadful; horrible. See examples of GHASTLY used in a sentence.
Origin of Ghastly. From a derivation of Old English gǣstan (“to torment, frighten”) with the suffix -lic. Equivalent to ghast / gast + -ly. Spelling with 'gh' developed 16th century from confusion with ghost; cf. also ghostly. From Wiktionary.
