adjective (ghastlier, ghastliest)
1 (of an event) very frightening and unpleasant, because it involves pain, death, etc:
a ghastly crime / murder * She woke up in the middle of a ghastly nightmare.
2 (informal) (of an experience or a situation) very bad; unpleasant:
The weather was ghastly. * It's all been a ghastly mistake. * When she mentioned redundancies, for one ghastly moment, I thought she meant me.
3 (informal) (of a person or thing) that you find unpleasant and dislike very much:
her ghastly husband * This lipstick is a ghastly colour. * I look ghastly in red.
4 [notusuallybeforenoun] ill/sick or upset:
I felt ghastly the next day. * Do I look as ghastly as I feel?
5 (literary) very pale in appearance, like a dead person:
His face was ghastly white. * She had a ghastly pallor.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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