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Definition of ghastly : 1. Horrible; shocking; dreadful; hideous.
2. In a ghastly manner; hideously.
3. Like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid; dismal.

Synonyms:

mordant, forbidding, uncanny, tremendous, weird, fearsome, deadly, disgusting, demented, direful, crazy, downcast, supernatural, grisly, fed up, drear, dark, shocking, tired of, disgusted, nauseated, pale, low-spirited, dreary, stern, ashen, frightening, dispirited, live, good, lurid, sepulchral, queasy, relentless, downhearted, charnel, disturbed, macabre, unbalanced, sorry, depressed, ghostlike, abhorrent, formidable, sick, dour, gloomy, down, horrendous, beautiful, unearthly, ghostly, nauseous, unnatural, deathly, spectral, drab, down in the mouth, gruesome, inexorable, deathlike, fear, real, black, wan, pallid, unrelenting, sickish, cadaverous, mad, offensive, natural, redoubtable, unhinged, scary, blue, grim, low, unforgiving, unappeasable, dismal, fearful, ill, funereal, disconsolate, dingy, brainsick, sick of

dreadful, terrible, alarming, frightful, hideous, awful, unpleasant, dire, repulsive, horrible, horrid, appalling

Usage examples:

• Her face was ghastly. - "A Butterfly on the Wheel", Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull.
• I fancy the others, too, were thinking of something far removed from the ghastly horror of war. - "The Mystery of the Green Ray", William Le Queux.
• Ghastly ruin, isn't it? - "The Sisters-In-Law", Gertrude Atherton.