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GHASTLY definition: 1. unpleasant and shocking: 2. extremely bad or ugly: 3. If someone looks ghastly, they look very…. Learn more.
The meaning of GHASTLY is terrifyingly horrible to the senses : frightening. How to use ghastly in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Ghastly.
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. An adjective used to describe that which inspires visions of death and feelings of revulsion, ghastly originated circa 1300. It is very close in meaning to the similarly spelled ghostly.
adjective. If you describe someone or something as ghastly, you mean that you find them very unpleasant. [informal] ...a mother accompanied by her ghastly unruly child. It was the worst week of my life. It was ghastly. ...a particularly ghastly murder. Synonyms: gruesome, shocking, terrible, terrifying More Synonyms of ghastly.
adjective. /ˈɡɑːstli/ /ˈɡæstli/ (comparative ghastlier, superlative ghastliest) (of an event) very frightening and unpleasant, because it involves pain, death, etc. synonym horrible. a ghastly crime/murder. She woke up in the middle of a ghastly nightmare. Definitions on the go.
1. informal very bad or unpleasant. 2. deathly pale; wan. 3. informal extremely unwell; ill: they felt ghastly after the party. 4. terrifying; horrible. adv. 5. unhealthily; sickly: ghastly pale. 6. archaic in a horrible or hideous manner.
