All ghastly synonyms
ghastΒ·ly
G g adj ghastly
- sickening β causing or capable of causing sickness, especially nausea, disgust, or loathing: sickening arrogance.
- horrid β such as to cause horror; shockingly dreadful; abominable.
- ghostly β of, characteristic of, or resembling a ghost; phantasmal; spectral.
- macabre β gruesome and horrifying; ghastly; horrible.
- frightening β to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
- horrendous β shockingly dreadful; horrible: a horrendous crime.
- terrible β distressing; severe: a terrible winter.
- appalling β Something that is appalling is so bad or unpleasant that it shocks you.
- frightful β such as to cause fright; dreadful, terrible, or alarming: A frightful howl woke us.
- ghoulish β strangely diabolical or cruel; monstrous: a ghoulish and questionable sense of humor.
- unpleasant β not pleasant; displeasing; disagreeable; offensive: an unpleasant taste; an unpleasant situation; an unpleasant manner.
- grisly β gristly.
- terrifying β to fill with terror or alarm; make greatly afraid.
- horrible β causing or tending to cause horror; shockingly dreadful: a horrible sight.
- awful β If you say that someone or something is awful, you dislike that person or thing or you think that they are not very good.
- gruesome β causing great horror; horribly repugnant; grisly: the site of a gruesome murder.
- shocking β causing intense surprise, disgust, horror, etc.
- hideous β horrible or frightful to the senses; repulsive; very ugly: a hideous monster.
- grim β stern and admitting of no appeasement or compromise: grim determination; grim necessity.
- lurid β gruesome; horrible; revolting: the lurid details of an accident.
- abhorrent β If something is abhorrent to you, you hate it very much or consider it completely unacceptable.
- anemic β Pathology. suffering from anemia.
- ashen β Someone who is ashen looks very pale, especially because they are ill, shocked, or frightened.
- bloodless β A bloodless coup or victory is one in which nobody is killed.
- cadaverous β If you describe someone as cadaverous, you mean they are extremely thin and pale.
- dim β DIM statement
- disgusting β causing disgust; offensive to the physical, moral, or aesthetic taste.
- faint β lacking brightness, vividness, clearness, loudness, strength, etc.: a faint light; a faint color; a faint sound.
- funereal β of or suitable for a funeral.
- haggard β having a gaunt, wasted, or exhausted appearance, as from prolonged suffering, exertion, or anxiety; worn: the haggard faces of the tired troops.
- livid β having a discolored, bluish appearance caused by a bruise, congestion of blood vessels, strangulation, etc., as the face, flesh, hands, or nails.
- loathsome β causing feelings of loathing; disgusting; revolting; repulsive: a loathsome skin disease.
- mortuary β funeral home.
- nauseating β causing sickness of the stomach; nauseous.
- offensive β causing resentful displeasure; highly irritating, angering, or annoying: offensive television commercials.
- pallid β pale; faint or deficient in color; wan: a pallid countenance.
- repellent β causing distaste or aversion; repulsive.
- repulsive β causing repugnance or aversion: a repulsive mask.
- sepulchral β of, relating to, or serving as a tomb.
- spectral β of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
- supernatural β of, relating to, or being above or beyond what is natural; unexplainable by natural law or phenomena; abnormal.
- uncanny β having or seeming to have a supernatural or inexplicable basis; beyond the ordinary or normal; extraordinary: uncanny accuracy; an uncanny knack of foreseeing trouble.
- unearthly β seeming not to belong to this earth or world: unearthly beauty.
- unnatural β contrary to the laws or course of nature.
- wan β of an unnatural or sickly pallor; pallid; lacking color: His wan face suddenly flushed.
- weak β not strong; liable to yield, break, or collapse under pressure or strain; fragile; frail: a weak fortress; a weak spot in armor.
- deathlike β resembling or suggestive of death
- wraithlike β an apparition of a living person supposed to portend his or her death.
adjective ghastly
- upsetting β overturned: an upset milk pail.
- distressing β great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.