ghastly

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ghastly

A ghost story told around the campfire can have a ghastly atmosphere.

Definition
  1. Adjective:
    • Shockingly frightful or dreadful; causing great horror or fear: "ghastly" describes something that is extremely frightening, horrifying, or repellent in appearance or nature.
    • Resembling a ghost; deathly pale: "ghastly" can also describe an extremely pale, wan, or corpselike appearance.
Examples of Usage
  • Adjective:
    • The accident scene was a ghastly sight. (The scene was horrifying and shocking to see.)
    • She had a ghastly pallor after hearing the terrible news. (Her face was deathly pale.)
    • He told a ghastly tale of the haunted house. (He told a story that was filled with horror.)
Advanced Usage
  • "ghastly mistake": a terrible, shocking, or horrifying error.
    • The surgeon's ghastly mistake cost the patient his life.
  • "ghastly silence": a silence that is eerie, frightening, or deeply unsettling.
    • A ghastly silence fell over the room after the announcement.
Variants and Related Words
  • Ghastliness (noun): the quality of being ghastly.
    • The ghastliness of the crime shocked the community.
Synonyms
  • Grisly: inspiring horror or disgust, often due to violence.
  • Macabre: disturbing and horrifying because of involvement with or depiction of death and injury.
  • Grim: forbidding, uninviting, or depressing, especially in a sinister way.
  • Horrific: causing horror.
  • Pallid: pale, typically because of poor health.
Related Phrases
  • "look ghastly": to appear very pale, ill, or frightened.
    • You look ghastly; you should sit down and rest.
  • "ghastly affair": a situation or event that is terrible and shocking.
    • The trial turned into a ghastly affair with new, disturbing evidence every day.
Related Idioms
  • "A ghastly grin/smile": a smile that is unnerving, frightening, or lacking genuine warmth, resembling the smile of a corpse or ghost.
    • The villain gave a ghastly grin before disappearing into the shadows.
ghastly

A ghost story told around the campfire can have a ghastly atmosphere.

Adjective
  1. 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
  2. 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

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