ghastly

Betekenis (Engels)

Adj

1. Like a ghost in appearance; death-like; pale; pallid; dismal.
2. Horrifyingly shocking.
3. Extremely bad.

Adv

In a ghastly manner.

Sinonieme

horrible

gruesome

grisly

awful

hideous

nasty

dreadful

frightful

abominable

terrible

accursed

abhorrent

atrocious

detestable

vile

loathsome

dismal

dreary

horrid

terrifying

dire

macabre

bleak

appalling

grim

lurid

horrific

horrifying

wan

charnel

eerie

ominous

horribly

pale

horrendous

frightening

agonizing

appallingly

awfully

deathlike

dreadfully

fearful

😨

foul

gross

hideously

lousy

low

lowlife

odious

pallid

sepulchral

shocking

sick

🤢

sleazy

terribly

terrific

unspeakably

execrable

dreaded

despicable

ignoble

immoral

lifeless

depraved

godawful

ashen

uncanny

deadly

cadaverous

mean

monstrous

morbid

bloodcurdling

very pale

beastly

base

appaling

provoking

sallow

abject

shitty

weird

yellowish

sinister

extremely weird

sordid

spectral

stinking

ghostly

ghoulish

god-awful

ghostlike

frightfully

awing

formidable

gruesomely

haggard

flagrant

dredful

fell

extremely

extraordinarily

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈɡɑːs(t).li/

Etimologie (Engels)

From a conflation of a derivation of Old English gǣstan (“to torment, frighten”) with the suffix -lic, and ghostly (which was also spelt "gastlich" in Middle English). Equivalent to ghast/gast + -ly. Spelling with 'gh' developed 16th century due to the conflation.