ghastlyとは

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?) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

     Each turned his face with a ghastly pang.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Thomas Macaulay

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

2. Horrifyingly shocking.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     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, page 030:

     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.

3. 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.

   He turned ghastly pale on hearing the news.