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ghastly
Synonyms and Antonyms of ghastly
- a ghastly crime that shocked even hard-bitten detectives
alarming, bloodcurdling, dire, direful, fearful, fearsome, forbidding, formidable, frightening, gut-wrenching, hair-raising, heart-stopping, intimidating, redoubtable, scary, terrifying
abhorrent, deplorable, disagreeable, disgusting, distasteful, loathsome, nauseating, noisome, obnoxious, obscene, offensive, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening
abominable, evil, foul, heinous, noxious, odious, unspeakable, vile
- I'm afraid that there's been a ghastly misunderstanding.
- a ghastly horror story
daunting, demoralizing, disconcerting, discouraging, dismaying, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, startling, threatening, troubling, trying, unnerving
bone-chilling, creepy, eerie (also eery), weird
appalling, atrocious, awful, grisly, gruesome (also grewsome), hideous, horrid, macabre, monstrous, nightmarish
Synonym Discussion of ghastly
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- a ghastly accident
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- an unusually grisly murder
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- suffered a gruesome death
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- a macabre tale of premature burial
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- the lurid details of a crime
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