Definition for Ghastly:

• gruesomely indicative of death or the dead; " a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones"; " ghastly shrieks"; " the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs"

Synonyms for Ghastly:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • grisly,
  • gruesome,
  • grim,
  • sick,
  • macabre.
  •awful (adjective)
  • appalling,
  • awful,
  • dire,
  • terrible,
  • horrid,
  • horrible,
  • frightful,
  • unpleasant,
  • repulsive,
  • hideous,
  • alarming,
  • dreadful.
  •cadaverous (adjective)
  • peaky.
  •colorless (adjective)
  • uncolored.
  •deathly (adjective)
  • deathlike.
  •fearful (adjective)
  • unspeakable.
  •frightening (adjective)
  • terrifying,
  • nightmarish.
  •ghostly (adjective)
  • ghostly,
  • scary,
  • cadaverous,
  • wraithlike,
  • deadly.
  •gray (adjective)
  • ashen.
  •grisly (adjective)
  • grisly.
  •horrifying, dreadful; pale (adjective)
  • dim,
  • repulsive,
  • bloodless,
  • cadaverous,
  • gruesome,
  • sepulchral,
  • ghoulish,
  • loathsome,
  • horrid,
  • supernatural,
  • nauseating,
  • offensive,
  • sickening,
  • macabre,
  • mortuary,
  • awful,
  • unpleasant,
  • grim,
  • frightful,
  • terrifying,
  • terrible,
  • deathlike,
  • unnatural,
  • spectral,
  • pallid,
  • funereal,
  • anemic,
  • wraithlike,
  • ashen,
  • haggard,
  • shocking,
  • faint,
  • disgusting,
  • corpselike,
  • horrendous,
  • horrible,
  • hideous,
  • lurid,
  • wan,
  • abhorrent,
  • uncanny,
  • appalling,
  • frightening,
  • ghostly,
  • repellent,
  • unearthly,
  • livid,
  • grisly.
  •offensive (adjective)
  • offensive,
  • horrid,
  • frightful.

• n.

  •
  • deathlike,
  • detestable,
  • ghostly,
  • spectral,
  • unnatural,
  • sickening,
  • vile,
  • uncanny,
  • weird,
  • supernatural,
  • unearthly,
  • despicable,
  • ashen,
  • revolting,
  • cadaverous.
  •
  • chilling,
  • eerie,
  • awesome,
  • menacing,
  • lurid.
  •
  • fear,
  • direful,
  • formidable,
  • redoubtable,
  • fearsome,
  • fearful,
  • tremendous,
  • scary.
  •
  • deadly,
  • ghostlike,
  • deathly.
  •
  • shocking,
  • horrendous.
  •ghastly (noun)
  • charnel,
  • alarming,
  • gruesome,
  • macabre,
  • grisly,
  • grim,
  • sepulchral,
  • offensive.
  •terrifying (noun)
  • frightening.
  •unpleasant (noun)
  • disgusting,
  • abhorrent.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • chilling,
  • deathlike,
  • direful,
  • fearsome,
  • menacing,
  • eerie,
  • scary,
  • ghoulish,
  • heart-stopping,
  • ghostlike,
  • harrowing,
  • creepy,
  • awesome,
  • dreaded,
  • bloodcurdling.
  •
  • frighteningly,
  • horrendous,
  • fearful,
  • redoubtable,
  • lurid.
  •
  • chill,
  • shocking,
  • ghostly.
  •
  • deadly,
  • tremendous,
  • formidable.
  •deathlike
  • deathly.
  •ghoulish
  • unearthly.
  •mysterious
  • weird.
  •phantom
  • spectral.
  •Other relevant words:
  • despicable,
  • peaky,
  • raven,
  • revolting,
  • etiolated,
  • emaciated,
  • scary,
  • nauseous,
  • harrowing,
  • sorry,
  • frustrating,
  • contemptible,
  • dismal,
  • blanched,
  • rotten,
  • eerie,
  • ghoulish,
  • shadowy,
  • demonic,
  • repugnant,
  • exasperating,
  • misery,
  • wearied,
  • satanic,
  • deep,
  • pallid,
  • brutal,
  • take to heart,
  • fearfulness,
  • pasty,
  • flagitious,
  • gloomy,
  • evil,
  • frown,
  • terrify,
  • supernatural,
  • ailing,
  • sickeningly,
  • blood-curdling,
  • wan,
  • sick,
  • ruthless,
  • corpselike,
  • vile,
  • waxen,
  • base,
  • unsightly,
  • lurid,
  • creepy,
  • bad,
  • dread,
  • dreadfuls,
  • damnable,
  • unappeasable,
  • wasted,
  • drained,
  • Black-hearted,
  • dispiriting,
  • vicious,
  • fearsomeness,
  • gruesomeness,
  • muddy,
  • disgusting,
  • intensive,
  • agonizing,
  • monstrous,
  • haggard,
  • horror,
  • spent,
  • terrific,
  • unbalanced,
  • staggering,
  • wretched,
  • fear,
  • fell,
  • enormous,
  • forbidding,
  • stern,
  • plain-featured,
  • lackluster,
  • woeful,
  • mordant,
  • repulsively,
  • hellacious,
  • wicked,
  • pale-faced,
  • charnel,
  • scandalise,
  • sepulchral,
  • fulsome,
  • mealy,
  • dim,
  • incredulity,
  • nightmarish,
  • depress,
  • disbelief,
  • flagrant,
  • maleficent,
  • hideously,
  • hair-raising,
  • frighten,
  • grim,
  • hypochromic,
  • unnatural,
  • portentous,
  • beastly,
  • astounding,
  • ill,
  • nauseating,
  • gray,
  • nightmare,
  • palely,
  • shockingly,
  • scrawny,
  • rank,
  • achromatic,
  • hateful,
  • baleful,
  • tremendous,
  • pitiable,
  • dimmed,
  • unholy,
  • cruelly,
  • woefulness,
  • direr,
  • colorless,
  • diabolical,
  • leaden,
  • whitish,
  • wrong,
  • gory,
  • depressing,
  • terror,
  • awfully,
  • ward,
  • gruesome,
  • hollow-cheeked,
  • malefic,
  • maledict,
  • unpleasantness,
  • lamentable,
  • hellish,
  • be ugly,
  • infernal,
  • awesome,
  • sickening,
  • nasty,
  • execrable,
  • redoubtable,
  • unspeakable,
  • villainous,
  • awfulness,
  • queasy,
  • careworn,
  • terribly,
  • fearsome,
  • mat,
  • bloodless,
  • dismaying,
  • morbid,
  • dispirit,
  • bloodcurdling,
  • unearthly,
  • Tallow-faced,
  • rigid,
  • shocking,
  • sickly,
  • dull,
  • terrifying,
  • intimidating,
  • nauseant,
  • dark,
  • dimly,
  • run-down,
  • distasteful,
  • shameful,
  • nefarious,
  • sinful,
  • toneless,
  • lusterless,
  • barbaric,
  • distressing,
  • painful,
  • obnoxious,
  • sallow,
  • black,
  • peaked,
  • demoralise,
  • spectral,
  • horrifyingly,
  • dreary,
  • ghostlike,
  • excruciating,
  • neutral,
  • played out,
  • look blue,
  • awe-inspiring,
  • iniquitous,
  • grave,
  • ominous,
  • atheism,
  • accursed,
  • evil-minded,
  • withered,
  • shabby,
  • unforgiving,
  • repelling,
  • disagreeable,
  • gruesomely,
  • egregious,
  • immoral,
  • heart-stopping,
  • pallidly,
  • scandalously,
  • Exsanguineous,
  • frightfully,
  • relentless,
  • ashen,
  • foul,
  • abominable,
  • filthy,
  • Toil-worn,
  • pitiful,
  • noisome,
  • dead,
  • scandalous,
  • deathly,
  • white,
  • washed-out,
  • kafkaesque,
  • heinous,
  • perilous,
  • sepulchrally,
  • direful,
  • ghostlier,
  • dreaded,
  • infamous,
  • upsetting,
  • inhuman,
  • dingy,
  • grievous,
  • savage,
  • achromic,
  • scraggy,
  • revoltingly,
  • shrunken,
  • exsanguine,
  • keen,
  • chilling,
  • formidable,
  • Abhorrently,
  • unbelief,
  • faint,
  • anemic,
  • ghostly,
  • plain,
  • awe,
  • livid,
  • regrettable,
  • weird,
  • Horribleness,
  • appallingly,
  • fearful,
  • worrisome,
  • hueless,
  • crazy,
  • danger,
  • make faces,
  • dreadfulness,
  • outrageous,
  • faded,
  • weary,
  • terribleness,
  • fallow,
  • drawn,
  • exhausted,
  • deathlike,
  • Feared,
  • Fiendish,
  • lower,
  • cadaverous,
  • wraithlike,
  • detestable,
  • unclean,
  • uncolored,
  • atrocious,
  • hard,
  • ugly,
  • worn,
  • macabre,
  • abhorrent,
  • dreadfully,
  • wanly,
  • unlovely,
  • ferocious,
  • ill-favoured,
  • squalid,
  • impossible,
  • frightfulness,
  • unrelenting,
  • deplorable,
  • frighteningly,
  • mad,
  • gross,
  • dour,
  • hefty,
  • sinister,
  • horridness,
  • grimly,
  • flat,
  • devilish,
  • horridly,
  • anaemic,
  • Direness,
  • loathsome,
  • corrupt,
  • gaunt,
  • horribly,
  • horrendously,
  • homely,
  • Peakish,
  • mortuary,
  • Waterish,
  • horrifically,
  • odious,
  • menacing,
  • barbarous,
  • discolored,
  • repellent,
  • depraved,
  • corpse-like,
  • Whey-faced,
  • deadly,
  • inexorable,
  • intolerable,
  • atrociously,
  • funereal,
  • frightening,
  • grey,
  • miserable,
  • chill,
  • demoralize,
  • unpromising,
  • ghastliness,
  • sad,
  • luridly,
  • unprepossessing,
  • hollow-eyed,
  • pout,
  • disconsolate,
  • horrifying,
  • grotesque,
  • colourless,
  • blue,
  • malevolent,
  • nauseated,
  • horrendous,
  • fearfully,
  • pale,
  • horrify,
  • grisly,
  • Grewsome,
  • offensive,
  • cadaverously,
  • uncanny,
  • ashy,
  • abysmal,
  • dirty,
  • cruel,
  • horrific,
  • gorgonian,
  • unattractive.

Antonyms for Ghastly:

• adj.

  • horrifying, dreadful; pale
    good, comforting, nice, great, delightful, pleasing, beautiful, pretty, wonderful, pleasant.
  • Other antonyms:
    relaxing, cheering, enticing, inoffensive, shallow, diminished, moderate, reduced, toned, lulling, reassuring, weak, unalarming, light, tranquilizing, qualified, decreased, eased, calming, subdued, lessened, pacifying, superficial, inviting, soothing, appealing, soft, consoling, moderated, feeble, comforting, alleviated.

• Other antonyms:

  • n.
    defensive, unoffending.