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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. Each turned his face with a ghastly pang. --Coleridge. His face was so ghastly that it could scarcely be recognized. --Macaulay. 2. Horrible; shocking; dreadful; hideous. Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail --Milton. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Ghastly \Ghast"ly\, adv In a ghastly manner; hideously. Staring full ghastly like a strangled man. --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: 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: {grim}, {grisly}, {gruesome}, {macabre}] 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}, {sepulchral}]
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