英语词汇“ghastly”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

ghastly

/ˈɡɑːs(t)li

adjective (ghastlier, ghastliest)

1Causing great horror or fear: one of the most ghastly crimes ever committed...

But when we looked up, the fires and smoke shifted from ghastly spectacle to specific human horror.
But the horror was just too ghastly to verbalize.
For others it was a slaughter of the innocents, a ghastly reminder of the horrors and insanity of war.

Synonyms

terrible, frightful, horrible, grim, awful, dire;

frightening, terrifying, horrifying, alarming;

distressing, shocking, appalling, harrowing;

dreadful, fearful, hideous, horrendous, monstrous, unspeakable, gruesome, tragic, calamitous, grievous, grisly

serious, severe, grave, very bad, grievous, dreadful, terrible, awful, frightful, dire;

unforgivable, inexcusable, indefensible, reprehensible, disgraceful, shameful

archaic or humorous parlous

2Extremely unwell: she had sobered up but she felt ghastly

Synonyms

ill, unwell, washed out, peaky;

sick, queasy, nauseous, nauseated, green about the gills;

British off, off colour, poorly

informal rough, lousy, rotten, terrible, awful, horrible, dreadful, crummy

British informal grotty, ropy

Scottish informal wabbit, peely-wally

Australian/New Zealand informal crook

vulgar slang crappy

dated queer, seedy

rare peaked, peakish

2.1Deathly white: a ghastly pallor...

Her right arm came up, and pushed a hidden button on her forehead, and the helmet disappeared, replaced by a ghastly pale white head with green hair falling down her shoulders.
There was no mistaking those ghastly eyes and pale white skin.
Her lips were shrivelled and pale, her skin a ghastly white.

Synonyms

pale, white, pallid, pasty, pasty-faced, wan, colourless, anaemic, bloodless, washed out, peaky, peakish, ashen, ashen-faced, ashy, chalky, chalk-white, grey, whitish, white-faced, whey-faced, waxen, waxy, blanched, drained, pinched, green, sickly, sallow, as white as a sheet, as white as a ghost, deathly pale, cadaverous, corpse-like, ghostlike, spectral

informal like death warmed up

Scottish informal peely-wally

rare livid, etiolated, lymphatic

3 informal Very objectionable, bad, or unpleasant: the weather was ghastly...

With his ghastly haircut and appalling dress sense, and his strange mannerisms, he is, nevertheless a giant of a man.
She is confined to her bed with ghastly old-fashioned furniture and state-supermarket fare.
A ghastly terrible obscene waste of human life.

Synonyms

unpleasant, objectionable, offensive, disagreeable, distasteful, displeasing, unacceptable, off-putting, undesirable, obnoxious;

nasty, disgusting, awful, terrible, dreadful, frightful, foul, repulsive, repellent, repugnant, revolting, abhorrent, loathsome, hateful, odious, detestable, reprehensible, deplorable, appalling, insufferable, intolerable, despicable, contemptible, beyond the pale, vile, obscene, unsavoury, unpalatable, sickening, nauseating, nauseous, noxious

informal horrible, horrid, sick-making

British informal beastly

archaic disgustful, loathly

rare exceptionable, rebarbative

Derivatives

ghastliness

/ˈɡɑːstlɪnəs

/ noun ...

Behind her the shadow heightens this sense of foreboding, while the overall colour scheme of green and purple further increases the ghastliness of the image.
For once that epithet is justified and is more than a convenient journalistic label to ramp up the ghastliness of any given tragedy.
It was physically demanding but there was no repeat of the ghastliness of Wednesday.

ghastlily

adverb

Origin

Middle English: from obsolete gast 'terrify', from Old English gǣstan, of Germanic origin; related to ghost. The gh spelling is by association with ghost. The sense 'objectionable' dates from the mid 19th century.

aghast from Late Middle English:
Gast (originally gaestan) was an Old English word meaning ‘frighten or terrify’. It was still being used in this sense in Shakespeare's day: ‘Or whether gasted by the noise I made, Full suddenly he fled’ (King Lear). This gave rise to agast, which had the same meaning. The spelling aghast (probably influenced by the spelling of ghost) was originally Scottish but became generally used after 1700. Ghastly (Middle English) comes from the same word. The sense ‘objectionable’ dates from the mid 19th century.

单词	ghastly
释义	ghastly /ˈɡɑːs(t)li / adjective (ghastlier, ghastliest) 1Causing great horror or fear: one of the most ghastly crimes ever committed... But when we looked up, the fires and smoke shifted from ghastly spectacle to specific human horror. But the horror was just too ghastly to verbalize. For others it was a slaughter of the innocents, a ghastly reminder of the horrors and insanity of war. Synonyms terrible, frightful, horrible, grim, awful, dire; frightening, terrifying, horrifying, alarming; distressing, shocking, appalling, harrowing; dreadful, fearful, hideous, horrendous, monstrous, unspeakable, gruesome, tragic, calamitous, grievous, grisly serious, severe, grave, very bad, grievous, dreadful, terrible, awful, frightful, dire; unforgivable, inexcusable, indefensible, reprehensible, disgraceful, shameful archaic or humorous parlous 2Extremely unwell: she had sobered up but she felt ghastly Synonyms ill, unwell, washed out, peaky; sick, queasy, nauseous, nauseated, green about the gills; British off, off colour, poorly informal rough, lousy, rotten, terrible, awful, horrible, dreadful, crummy British informal grotty, ropy Scottish informal wabbit, peely-wally Australian/New Zealand informal crook vulgar slang crappy dated queer, seedy rare peaked, peakish 2.1Deathly white: a ghastly pallor... Her right arm came up, and pushed a hidden button on her forehead, and the helmet disappeared, replaced by a ghastly pale white head with green hair falling down her shoulders. There was no mistaking those ghastly eyes and pale white skin. Her lips were shrivelled and pale, her skin a ghastly white. Synonyms pale, white, pallid, pasty, pasty-faced, wan, colourless, anaemic, bloodless, washed out, peaky, peakish, ashen, ashen-faced, ashy, chalky, chalk-white, grey, whitish, white-faced, whey-faced, waxen, waxy, blanched, drained, pinched, green, sickly, sallow, as white as a sheet, as white as a ghost, deathly pale, cadaverous, corpse-like, ghostlike, spectral informal like death warmed up Scottish informal peely-wally rare livid, etiolated, lymphatic 3 informal Very objectionable, bad, or unpleasant: the weather was ghastly... With his ghastly haircut and appalling dress sense, and his strange mannerisms, he is, nevertheless a giant of a man. She is confined to her bed with ghastly old-fashioned furniture and state-supermarket fare. A ghastly terrible obscene waste of human life. Synonyms unpleasant, objectionable, offensive, disagreeable, distasteful, displeasing, unacceptable, off-putting, undesirable, obnoxious; nasty, disgusting, awful, terrible, dreadful, frightful, foul, repulsive, repellent, repugnant, revolting, abhorrent, loathsome, hateful, odious, detestable, reprehensible, deplorable, appalling, insufferable, intolerable, despicable, contemptible, beyond the pale, vile, obscene, unsavoury, unpalatable, sickening, nauseating, nauseous, noxious informal horrible, horrid, sick-making British informal beastly archaic disgustful, loathly rare exceptionable, rebarbative Derivatives ghastliness /ˈɡɑːstlɪnəs / noun ... Behind her the shadow heightens this sense of foreboding, while the overall colour scheme of green and purple further increases the ghastliness of the image. For once that epithet is justified and is more than a convenient journalistic label to ramp up the ghastliness of any given tragedy. It was physically demanding but there was no repeat of the ghastliness of Wednesday. ghastlily adverb Origin Middle English: from obsolete gast 'terrify', from Old English gǣstan, of Germanic origin; related to ghost. The gh spelling is by association with ghost. The sense 'objectionable' dates from the mid 19th century. aghast from Late Middle English: Gast (originally gaestan) was an Old English word meaning ‘frighten or terrify’. It was still being used in this sense in Shakespeare's day: ‘Or whether gasted by the noise I made, Full suddenly he fled’ (King Lear). This gave rise to agast, which had the same meaning. The spelling aghast (probably influenced by the spelling of ghost) was originally Scottish but became generally used after 1700. Ghastly (Middle English) comes from the same word. The sense ‘objectionable’ dates from the mid 19th century.
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