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

单词	ghastly
释义	ghast·ly I. \ˈgastlē, ˈgaas-, ˈgais-, ˈgȧs-, -li\ adjective (usually -er/-est) Etymology: Middle English gastly, from Old English gāastlīc spiritual — more at ghostly 1. : giving rise to terror : frightening, terrifying < along the parapet rose great pyramids of German helmets, empty, ghastly, like … heaps of skulls — Louis Bromfield > 2. : resembling or suggestive of a ghost : deathlike, pale, wan < his face was so ghastly that it could scarcely be recognized — T.B.Macaulay > < her eyes are lighted up with a smile so ghastly that people quake as they look at her — W.M.Thackeray > 3. obsolete : filled with fear : terrified < in great haste and fear with ghastly … looks — Thomas Herbert > 4. : intensely unpleasant, disagreeable, or objectionable : terrible — often used as a generalized expression of disapproval < such a life seems ghastly in its emptiness and sterility — Aldous Huxley > < engaged in the ghastly job of revising the curriculum — H.J.Laski > 5. : very great — used as an intensive < the whole business is a ghastly mistake — D.B.Chidsey > < the ghastly waste of time that we indulge in — J.C.Powys > II. adverb : in a ghastly manner < her face was ghastly pale — Washington Irving >
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