GHASTLY

a. adv.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid; dismal. Each turned his face with a ghastly pang. Coleridge. His face was so ghastly that it could scarcely be recognized. Macaulay.

2.
a.

Horrible; shocking; dreadful; hideous. Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail. Milton.

3.
adv.

In a ghastly manner; hideously. Staring full ghastly like a strangled man. Shak.


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