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What is the adjective for ghastly?

What's the adjective for ghastly? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb ghast which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

ghastly
  1. Like a ghost in appearance; death-like; pale; pallid; dismal.
  2. Horrifyingly shocking.
  3. Extremely bad.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. frightening, terrifying, horrifying, scary, dreadful, terrible, horrible, frightful, alarming, fearsome, shocking, dire, horrendous, appalling, forbidding, gruesome, awful, intimidating, formidable, fearful, horrific, grim, hideous, grisly, chilling, direful, macabre, redoubtable, petrifying, dread, eerie, horrid, creepy, sinister, spooky, scaring, harrowing, lurid, monstrous, nightmarish, distressing, bloodcurdling, unspeakable, tragic, grievous, calamitous, hairy, spine-chilling, hair-raising, blood-curdling … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “Lovecraft's oeuvre is replete with ghastly monsters and terrifying perversions of nature.”
      “The air behind the orcs rippled, and the blur resolved into a hideous, misshapen creature, a ghastly combination of ape and wolf.”
      “Hovering over it like a ghastly apparition is a demoniac figure playing the lute.”
ghast
  1. Having a ghastly appearance; weird.
ghastlier
  1. comparative form of ghastly: more ghastly
  2. Synonyms:
      3. scarier, terribler, horribler, direr, gruesomer, awfuller, fearfuller, grimmer, grislier, dreader, eerier, horrider, creepier, spookier, hairier, more frightening, more terrifying, more horrifying, more dreadful, more frightful, more alarming, more fearsome, more horrendous, more appalling, more forbidding, more intimidating, more formidable, more horrific, more hideous, more chilling, more direful, more macabre, more redoubtable, more sinister, more harrowing, more lurid, more monstrous, more nightmarish, more distressing, more bloodcurdling, more unspeakable, more tragic, more grievous, more calamitous, more spine-chilling, more hair-raising, more spine-tingling, more morbid, darker, more daunting … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The diet used to include fruit, vegetables and meat. Ordinary Russians' food this winter will be ghastlier than usual.”
      “The final stage of Gesualdo's short life was, in some ways, ghastlier than the beginning.”
      “The indictment, which covers Mr Taylor's dirty dealings in neighbouring Sierra Leone's even ghastlier civil war, was unveiled while Mr Taylor was in Ghana for peace talks with Liberia's rebel leaders.”
ghastliest
  1. superlative form of ghastly: most ghastly
  2. Synonyms:
      3. scariest, terriblest, horriblest, direst, gruesomest, awfullest, fearfullest, grimmest, grisliest, dreadest, eeriest, horridest, creepiest, spookiest, hairiest, most frightening, most terrifying, most horrifying, most dreadful, most frightful, most alarming, most fearsome, most horrendous, most appalling, most forbidding, most intimidating, most formidable, most horrific, most hideous, most chilling, most direful, most macabre, most redoubtable, most sinister, most harrowing, most lurid, most monstrous, most nightmarish, most distressing, most bloodcurdling, most unspeakable, most tragic, most grievous, most calamitous, most spine-chilling, most hair-raising, most spine-tingling, most morbid, darkest, most daunting … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Many of the ghastliest examples of management-speak come from the public sector.”
      “Mass fear has been responsible for some of the ghastliest chapters in history.”
      “The region has some of the world's ghastliest health statistics, much worse even than other parts of Myanmar and more comparable to countries like Sierra Leone and Niger.”
ghasted
  1. simple past tense and past participle of ghast
ghasting
  1. present participle of ghast
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