Meaning & Definition of Ghastly in English

1. Shockingly repellent

• Inspiring horror

• "Ghastly wounds"

• "The grim aftermath of the bombing"

• "The grim task of burying the victims"

• "A grisly murder"

• "Gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"

• "Macabre tales of war and plague in the middle ages"

• "Macabre tortures conceived by madmen"

2. Gruesomely indicative of death or the dead

• "A charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones"

• "Ghastly shrieks"

• "The sepulchral darkness of the catacombs"