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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. shockingly repellent; inspiring horror;
- Example: "ghastly wounds"
- Example: "the grim aftermath of the bombing"
- Example: "the grim task of burying the victims"
- Example: "a grisly murder"
- Example: "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"
- Example: "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"
- Example: "macabre tortures conceived by madmen"
[syn: ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick]

2. gruesomely indicative of death or the dead;
- Example: "a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones"
- Example: "ghastly shrieks"
- Example: "the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs"
[syn: charnel, ghastly, sepulchral]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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]