Meaning of ghastly in English

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  1. Pronunciation
  2. Classifying Adjective
    1. Definitions

  1. Pronunciation

    /ˈɡæs(t)li/

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  1. Classifying Adjective

    ghastly

    Definitions

    1. shockingly repellent

    Examples

    • « 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 »
    • « macabr »

    Synonyms

  2. 2. gruesomely indicative of death or the dead

    Examples

    • « a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones »
    • « ghastly shrieks »
    • « the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs »

    Synonyms

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  • « If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly. »
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  • « I think marriage is ghastly. »
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  • « Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete? »
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  • « Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile. »
    Jim Carrey

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