OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 16390

ghastly

/ˈɡɑːs(t).li/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cadaveroso (disused) • cadavérico • fantasmal
Like a ghost in appearance; death-like; pale; pallid; dismal.
Each turned his face with a ghastly pang.
His face was so ghastly that it could scarcely be recognized.
espantoso • horrendo • horrible • horripilante • horroroso
Horrifyingly shocking.
Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail.
They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a…
desagradable • horrendo • horrible • horripilante • horroroso • malísimo • terrible
Extremely bad.
The play was simply ghastly.
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