Nearby Words
liadjective
1.
shockingly frightful or dreadful; horrible: a ghastly murder.
2.
resembling a ghost, especially in being very pale: a ghastly look to his face.
3.
terrible; very bad: a ghastly error.
adverb
4.
Also, ghast·li·ly, ghast·i·ly. in a ghastly manner; horribly; terribly.
5.
with a deathlike quality.
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Ghastly
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
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Example Sentences
- His sumptuous film is as strange and mesmerizing as it is imaginatively ghastly.
- Not surprisingly, the scenarios range from ghastly to extremely ghastly.
- The news goes from bad to ghastly.
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
ghastly
c.1300, from O.E. gæstan "to torment, frighten" + -lich "-ly." Spelling with gh- developed 16c. from confusion with ghost.
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