a. | 1. | Like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid; dismal. |
2. | Horrible; shocking; dreadful; hideous. | |
adv. | 1. | In a ghastly manner; hideously. |
Adj. | 1. | ghastly - 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" |
2. | ghastly - 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" Synonyms: charnel, sepulchral |