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单词 ghoulishness
释义

ghoulish

adjective

ghoul·​ish ˈgü-lish How to pronounce ghoulish (audio)
1
: resembling, suggesting, or appropriate to a ghoul
a ghoulish appearance
I knew not at what moment I might plunge headlong into some terrible pit or meet with some of the ghoulish creatures that inhabit these lower worlds … Edgar Rice Burroughs
Many of their sculptures depict the ghoulish spirits … and their paternal leader, Baron Samedi, the lord of death, decay and grotesque eroticism. Holland Cotter
2
: relating to, dealing with, or morbidly delighting in things considered shocking or gruesome
ghoulish thoughts
ghoulish humor
… the grieving family asked for his help in a rather ghoulish affair. Behn Cervantes
… his photographs present the aftermath of battles somewhat in the manner of ghoulish still lifes … Naomi Rosenblum
Annie was a fine, strapping girl, and was evidently labouring under intense excitement, mingled with a certain ghoulish enjoyment of the tragedy. Agatha Christie
… he offers the reader a deliciously ghoulish potted history of absurd burial techniques. Lawrence Osborne
ghoulishly adverb
laughing ghoulishly
Lurid, violent, … morbidly sentimental and ghoulishly capricious, this is the kind of painting which grabs the modern imagination for the most dubious of reasons. Jonathan Keates
ghoulishness noun
… a zany cross between wild farce and macabre ghoulishness John Percival

Word History

First Known Use

1835, in the meaning defined at sense 1

ghoulishness

noun

as in ghostliness

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • ghostliness
  • creepiness
  • eeriness
  • scariness
  • fearfulness
  • fearsomeness
  • loathsomeness
  • hatefulness
  • hellishness
  • vileness
  • despicableness
  • gruesomeness
  • evil
  • cursedness
  • badness
  • ghastliness
  • evilness
  • misery
  • heinousness
  • viciousness
  • torture
  • awfulness
  • anguish
  • dreadfulness
  • frightfulness
  • accursedness
  • invidiousness
  • repulsiveness
  • wickedness
  • sinfulness
  • grisliness
  • depravity
  • baseness
  • agony
  • execrableness
  • foulness
  • immorality
  • torment
  • detestableness
  • horridness
  • deplorableness
  • reprehensibleness
  • hideousness
  • ungodliness
  • atrocity
  • atrociousness
  • horror
  • depravedness
  • diabolicalness
  • iniquity
  • iniquitousness
  • monstrosity

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • delightfulness
  • agreeableness
  • pleasantness
  • appeal
  • attraction
  • desirability
  • pleasurableness
  • attractiveness
  • desirableness
  • allurement
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