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ghastliest Definition


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ghastly
adj ghastlier, ghastliest
    1. Extremely frightening, hideous or horrific.
      Thesaurus: frightful, terrifying, hideous, horrible, horrid, loathsome, lurid, repellent, shocking; Antonym: delightful.
    2. colloq
      Very bad.
    3. colloq
      Very ill.
adverb
    1. colloq
      Extremely; unhealthily.
      Example: ghastly pale
Derivative: ghastliness
noun
    Etymology: 14c as gastlich in sense 1, from obsolete gast to terrify.



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