ghastlyとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑːs(t).li/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɡæs(t).li/

形容詞

ghastly (comparative ghastlier, superlative ghastliest)

1. Like a ghost in appearance; death-like; pale; pallid; dismal.
   • (Can we date this quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     Each turned his face with a ghastly pang.

2. 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 11, in The History of England from the Accession of James II:

   His face was so ghastly that it could scarcely be recognized.

3. Horrifyingly shocking.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 6”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail.

   • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], OCLC 752825175:

     They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.

4. Extremely bad.

   The play was simply ghastly.

同意語

• (sickly pale): See also Thesaurus:pallid
• (horrifyingly shocking): lurid

副詞

ghastly (not comparable)

1. In a ghastly manner.
   • 1921, William Dudley Pelley, The Fog: A Novel, page 196:

     Johnathan's lips moved ghastly before his voice would come. "So I'm crazy, am I? And if I choose to murder you, what would you do?"