ghastly pale

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• pale — adj 1 Pale, pallid, ashen, ashy, wan, livid mean devoid of natural or healthy color as applied to a complexion or deficient in vividness or intensity of hue as applied to a specific color. Pale is the least rich of these words in implications and …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• ghastly — /ˈgastli / (say gahstlee) adjective (ghastlier, ghastliest) 1. frightful; dreadful; horrible: a ghastly murder. 2. deathly pale: a ghastly look. 3. bad; unpleasant; shocking: a ghastly failure. –adverb Obsolete 4. in a ghastly manner; horribly. 5 …  

• ghastly — 1. adjective /ˈɡɑːs(t).li,ˈɡæs(t).li/ a) Horrifyingly shocking. The play was simply ghastly. b) Extremely bad. Syn: lurid 2. adverb /ˈɡɑːs( …   Wiktionary

• ghastly — adj. & adv. adj. (ghastlier, ghastliest) 1 horrible, frightful. 2 colloq. objectionable, unpleasant. 3 deathlike, pallid. adv. in a ghastly or sickly way (ghastly pale). Derivatives: ghastlily adv. ghastliness n. Etymology: ME gastlich f. obs.… …   Useful english dictionary

• ghastly — ghastly, grisly, gruesome, macabre, grim, lurid are comparable when they mean horrifying and repellent in appearance or aspect. Ghastly suggests the terrifying aspects of death or bloodshed {the dying man s ghastly pallor} {death grinned horrible …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• Ghastly — Ghast ly, a. [Compar. {Ghastlier}; superl. {Ghastliest}.] [OE. gastlich, gastli, fearful, causing fear, fr. gasten to terrify, AS. g[ae]stan. Cf. {Aghast}, {Gast}, {Gaze}, {Ghostly}.] 1. Like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid; dismal …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• pale — [adj] light in color or effect anemic, ashen, ashy, blanched, bleached, bloodless, cadaverous, colorless, deathlike, dim, doughy, dull, faded, faint, feeble, ghastly, gray, haggard, inadequate, ineffective, ineffectual, insubstantial, livid,… …   New thesaurus

• ghastly — [adj] horrifying, dreadful; pale abhorrent, anemic, appalling, ashen, awful, bloodless, cadaverous, corpselike, deathlike, dim, disgusting, faint, frightening, frightful, funereal, ghostly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, gruesome, haggard, hideous,… …   New thesaurus

• ghastly — [gast′lē, gäst′lē] adj. ghastlier, ghastliest [ME gastli < gast, frightened, pp. of gasten, to frighten < OE gæstan < gæst, var. of gast (see GHOST): meaning infl. in ME by gostlich, GHOSTLY] 1. horrible; frightful 2. ghostlike; pale;… …   English World dictionary

• ghastly — ghastliness, n. /gast lee, gahst /, adj., ghastlier, ghastliest, adv. adj. 1. shockingly frightful or dreadful; horrible: a ghastly murder. 2. resembling a ghost, esp. in being very pale: a ghastly look to his face. 3. terrible; very bad: a… …   Universalium

• ghastly — adjective 1) a ghastly stabbing Syn: terrible, horrible, grim, awful, dire; frightening, terrifying, horrifying, alarming; distressing, shocking, appalling, harrowing; dreadful, frightful, horrendous, monstrous …   Thesaurus of popular words