GHASTLY

ghastly. Ghastly, a. horrid, shocking, frightful, like aghost

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Ghast″ly (?), a. [Compar. Ghastlier (?); superl. Ghastliest.] [[OE. gastlich, gastli, fearful, causing fear, fr. gasten to terrify, AS. gæstan. Cf. Aghast, Gast, Gaze, Ghostly.]] 1. 1. Like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid; dismal.
Each turned his face with a ghastly pang. Coleridge. His face was so ghastly that it could scarcely be recognized. Macaulay. 2. 2. Horrible; shocking; dreadful; hideous.
Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail. Milton.