Definitions for ghastly

ghastly ghast·ly

Spelling: [gast-lee, gahst-]
IPA: /ˈgæst li, ˈgɑst-/

Ghastly is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 151 anagrams from letters in ghastly (aghlsty).

Definitions for ghastly

adverb

  1. Also, ghastlily, ghastily. in a ghastly manner; horribly; terribly.
  2. with a deathlike quality.

adjective

  1. shockingly frightful or dreadful; horrible:
  2. resembling a ghost, especially in being very pale:
  3. terrible; very bad:

Origin of ghastly

1275-1325; Middle English gastly; see ghast, -ly

Examples for ghastly

Like Carina, she remembers a ghastly scene once the American soldiers withdrew.

And so those closest to the ghastly virus remain deaf to hashtags, and silent.

It was a ghastly tragedy that rattled a nation and became a byword for anti-Semitism in France.

Her face was ghastly, save for the trace of rouge; her eyes were red-rimmed.

These blunders culminated in a ghastly mistake on the field.

It was such a pitiful, ghastly bluff—for the cards were all against him, and he knew it.

Certain sections of the battlefield,” he adds, “were littered with the ghastly remains of burnt-out tanks and incinerated crews.

It is a ghastly business, quite beyond words, this schooling.

Watching her drown her sorrows in hooch and then get beat up by Crazy Eyes in the showers was ghastly…but great television.

The pain in the marshal's face became a ghastly thing to see.

Word Value for ghastly
Scrable

14

Words with friends

14

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