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But while we can never predict where events will take us or the unavoidable bills we will have to pay as a consequence, we must confront the ghastly truth of Labour's legacy.
Liam Fox

Meaning of "ghastly" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD GHASTLY

Old English gāstlīc spiritual.
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PRONUNCIATION OF GHASTLY

ghastly  [ˈɡɑːstlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GHASTLY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ghastly can act as an adjective and an adverb.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES GHASTLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of ghastly in the English dictionary

The first definition of ghastly in the dictionary is very bad or unpleasant. Other definition of ghastly is deathly pale; wan. Ghastly is also extremely unwell; ill.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GHASTLY


beastly
ˈbiːstlɪ
costly
ˈkɒstlɪ
earnestly
ˈɜːnɪstlɪ
fastly
ˈfɑːstlɪ
firstly
ˈfɜːstlɪ
ghostly
ˈɡəʊstlɪ
honestly
ˈɒnɪstlɪ
justly
ˈdʒʌstlɪ
lastly
ˈlɑːstlɪ
modestly
ˈmɒdɪstlɪ
mostly
ˈməʊstlɪ
Priestley
ˈpriːstlɪ
priestly
ˈpriːstlɪ
soothfastly
ˈsuːθˌfɑːstlɪ
steadfastly
ˈstɛdfɑːstlɪ
stedfastly
ˈstɛdfɑːstlɪ
unjustly
ʌnˈdʒʌstlɪ
unpriestly
ʌnˈpriːstlɪ
unsteadfastly
ʌnˈstɛdˌfɑːstlɪ
vastly
ˈvɑːstlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GHASTLY

gharial
gharri
gharry
ghast
ghastful
ghastfully
ghastlier
ghastliest
ghastliness
ghastness
ghat
Ghats
ghaut
ghazal
Ghazali
ghazi

WORDS THAT END LIKE GHASTLY

augustly
bristly
Christly
confestly
dishonestly
gristly
hostly
immodestly
moistly
overmodestly
robustly
thistly
uncostly
unghostly
wistly

Synonyms and antonyms of ghastly in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «GHASTLY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «ghastly» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of ghastly

Translation of «ghastly» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GHASTLY

Find out the translation of ghastly to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of ghastly from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ghastly» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

令人讨厌的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

horrible
570 millions of speakers

English

ghastly
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

भयंकर रूप से
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الروع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ужасно
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

horripilante
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ভয়ানক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

horrible
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kejam
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

grässlich
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ぞっとする
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

끔찍한
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ghastly
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

kinh khủng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கோரமான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

भयानक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

korkunç
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

orribile
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

upiornie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

жахливо
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

groaznic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

άθλιο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

woede
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ghastly
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

uhyggelig
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ghastly

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GHASTLY»

The term «ghastly» is quite widely used and occupies the 46.902 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GHASTLY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «ghastly» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «ghastly» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ghastly

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10 QUOTES WITH «GHASTLY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word ghastly.
1
Bill Bruford
And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser.
2
Jim Carrey
Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.
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Otto Dix
I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
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Sylvia Earle
Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life. It's akin to using a bulldozer to catch a butterfly, destroying a whole ecosystem for the sake of a few pounds of protein. We wouldn't do this on land, so why do it in the oceans?
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Rupert Everett
I think marriage is ghastly.
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Liam Fox
But while we can never predict where events will take us or the unavoidable bills we will have to pay as a consequence, we must confront the ghastly truth of Labour's legacy.
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Mark Gatiss
One of the pleasures of the original 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' is how incredibly ghastly they are. The ugly sisters have their eyes pecked out by crows.
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Miranda Hart
However much I might have yearned to be one of The Beautiful Ones, particularly at those ghastly school discos, where any desperate attempt to impress the opposite sex lead to at best deep humiliation, I now feel extremely blessed that I wasn't.
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Alan Patrick Herbert
If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.
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Tony Kushner
Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete?

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GHASTLY»

Discover the use of ghastly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ghastly and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories
Spanning a century and a half, a collection of ghost stories includes works by such masters of the genre as H.P. Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, Steve Rasnic Tem, H.F. Arnold, H. Warner Munn, and Darrell Schweitzer.
Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Martin Harry Greenberg, Robert A. Weinberg, 2003
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Ghastly Glass
At her glass-blowing apprenticeship, Renaissance reveler Jessie Morton?s crabby boss and his creepy nephew are causing her problems. But when the man playing the Grim Reaper is killed, Jess has to find the lady, lord or serf whodunit.
Joyce and Jim Lavene, 2009
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Ghastly Good Taste: Or, a Depressing Story of the Rise and ...
'My own interest started in seeking out what was old. When the guide told me that this was the bed in which Queen Elizabeth slept, I believed him.
John Betjeman, 2012
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Beowulf: Grendel the Ghastly
This modern retelling preserves the splendor of those Old English poetic conventions, while the taut, restrained phrasing captures Beowulf's original aural experience. But this is not a book for the ears only.
‎2007
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The Ghastly One: The Sex-Gore Netherworld of Filmmaker Andy ...
An anecdotal history of a twisted filmmaker
Jimmy McDonough, 2003
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Ghastly Business
1929. A girl is strangled in a London alley, the mangled corpse of a peeping Tom is found in a railway tunnel and the details of the latest trunk murder are updated hourly in the evening papers.
Louise Levene, 2012
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The Ghastly Dandies Do the Classics
These classic, illustrated tales told by monsters are sure to make your own little "ghastly" giggle. It's the kind of book you'll want to read to your kids, read again with your friends, and show off on your coffee table when you're done.
Ben Gibson, 2013
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Nasty Bugs and Ghastly Medicine
A history of the treatment of childhood illness includes photographs and illustrations showing medical advances from the Middle Ages through modern times.
John Townsend, 2006
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The Good and the Ghastly: A Novel
, Sarah Palin established the theory of natural selection). But what hasn’t changed is the nature of good and evil. The Good and the Ghastly centers on two people linked through violence.
James Boice, 2011
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The Executioner Always Chops Twice: Ghastly Blunders on the ...
" The business of death can be absurd, and nothing illustrates this better than these tales of the gruesome and frankly ridiculous ways in which a number of ill-fated unfortunates met (or failed to meet) their maker.
Geoffrey Abbott, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GHASTLY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ghastly is used in the context of the following news items.
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In Anambra: Couple, son, squashed by trailer in ghastly accident
In Anambra: Couple, son, squashed by trailer in ghastly accident ... Obiano has condoled the family of the victims of the ghastly motor accident. «Pulse Nigeria, Jul 15»
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Tour de Farce: Orica-GreenEdge and the upside down race against …
What's more - that's Simon Gerrans and Daryl Impey leading the Orica train, and both riders crashed out of the Tour after the ghastly high-speed ... «Eurosport.co.uk, Jul 15»
3
Young south Lincolnshire business tycoons are focused on their …
“The ghastly reputation that the world of business has managed to acquire is a danger to our economy, a danger to our young and huge pity for ... «Rutland and Stamford Mercury, Jul 15»
4
Joanna Lumley on returning to Russia 50 years after vowing never …
... time at the Russian Embassy where they were completely hostile and ghastly” – Joanna and the celebrated photographer Roy Round arrived ... «Radio Times, Jul 15»
5
KFC's new idea is an abomination
It has bequeathed unto the world a creation so ghastly, so repugnant, that it may very well have ruined pizza forever. “Thick crust, thin crust. «NEWS.com.au, Jul 15»
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Punch Shots: Phillies' season of disaster harbors something to wait for
His strikeouts are down from career norms and his ERA is ghastly (4.88), but at some point we have to see if Biddle can sink or swim. Long-term ... «The Delaware County Daily Times, Jul 15»
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Local Lexus Liberals Call For More Taxes
... a popular transportation delusion of the anti-car crowd, and of the folks who would make a packet off these ghastly expensive projects. «American Spectator, Jul 15»
8
Glenn Wool and Andrew Maxwell's mocking – but close – relationship
I remember sitting in a tiny B&B room in Bristol after a ghastly gig, sharing a bag of crisps, setting the world to rights and just laughing at the ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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Rivalry and banter ... on both sides
What those quick to highlight the latter as evidence that the Scots are a ghastly bunch - getting above themselves and undeserving of the ... «Herald Scotland, Jul 15»
10
Crippled Greece yields to overwhelming power as deal looms
This is the ghastly reality that Alexis Tsipras faces. He promised the Greek people that he would achieve a miracle: an end to austerity and the ... «Yahoo Finance UK, Jul 15»

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