
ghastly | ghastly: adj. 1 dreadful, awful, terrible, terrifying, frightful, hideous, horrible, horrendous, horrid, horrifying, grim, grisly, loathsome, gruesome, ugly, repellent, repulsive, shocking, appalling, Colloq gross, scary: He was involved in a ghastly accident. 2 grim, cadaverous, haggard, ashen, wan, pale, pallid, pasty(-faced), drawn, livid, ghostly, spectral, macabre: She looked ghastly after the surgery. 3 awful, bad, terrible, ill, ailing, sick: We felt ghastly after eating the undercooked chicken.
ghost | ghost: n. 1 apparition, phantom, spectre, phantasm, shade, spirit, wraith, poltergeist, banshee, double-ganger, Doppelganger, ghoul, manes, No. Eng. dialect boggart; hallucination, illusion, vision; Colloq spook: The ghost of his uncle appeared before him. 2 hint, suggestion, shadow, trace, scintilla, glimmer: Vera hasn''t the ghost of a chance of meeting anyone suitable at the office.
ghostly | ghostly: adj. 1 spectral, ghost-like, wraithlike, phantasmal, phantom, eerie, unreal, unnatural, supernatural, preternatural, unearthly, sinister, strange, uncanny, weird, Colloq spooky, scary, creepy: I heard a ghostly voice calling my name. 2 See ghastly, 2, above.
ghoulish | ghoulish: adj. 1 devilish, demonic, satanic, diabolic(al), fiendish, demoniac(al), cacodemonic, Mephistophelian; infernal, hellish, malign: The coven engage in the most ghoulish practices. 2 macabre, grisly, morbid, gruesome, disgusting, monstrous, abominable, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrifying, horrid, brutal, barbaric, savage, ruthless, pitiless, merciless, cruel, vicious, feral, inhuman, bloodthirsty, ferocious, Colloq sick: She has some ghoulish notions about being eaten alive by rats.
