Englishghastly
adjective
1 he is implicated in several ghastly stabbings:
terrible, frightful, horrible, grim, awful, dire;
frightening, terrifying, horrifying, alarming;
distressing, shocking, appalling, harrowing;
dreadful, fearful, hideous, horrendous, monstrous, unspeakable, gruesome, tragic, calamitous, grievous, grisly.
▷antonyms pleasant.
2 it's hard to escape the ghastly visitor centers:
unpleasant, objectionable, offensive, disagreeable, distasteful, displeasing, unacceptable, off-putting, undesirable, obnoxious;
nasty, disgusting, awful, terrible, dreadful, frightful, foul, repulsive, repellent, repugnant, revolting, abhorrent, loathsome, hateful, odious, detestable, reprehensible, deplorable, appalling, insufferable, intolerable, despicable, contemptible, beyond the pale, vile, obscene, unsavory, unpalatable, sickening, nauseating, nauseous, noxious;
informal horrible, horrid, sick-making;
British, informal beastly;
archaic disgustful, loathly;
rare exceptionable, rebarbative.
▷antonyms charming.
3 the patient feels ghastly on getting out of bed:
ill, unwell, washed out, peaky;
sick, queasy, nauseous, nauseated, green around the gills;
British off, off colour, poorly;
informal rough, lousy, rotten, terrible, awful, horrible, dreadful, crummy;
British, informal grotty, ropy;
Scottish, informal wabbit, peely-wally;
Australian, New Zealand, informal crook;
vulgar slang crappy;
dated queer, seedy;
rare peaked, peakish.
▷antonyms fine.
4 a ghastly mistake:
serious, severe, grave, very bad, grievous, dreadful, terrible, awful, frightful, dire;
unforgivable, inexcusable, indefensible, reprehensible, disgraceful, shameful;
archaic or humorous parlous.
▷antonyms trivial; excusable.
5 her face had a ghastly pallor:
pale, white, pallid, pasty, pasty-faced, wan, colorless, anemic, bloodless, washed out, peaky, peakish, ashen, ashen-faced, ashy, chalky, chalk white, gray, whitish, white-faced, whey-faced, waxen, waxy, blanched, drained, pinched, green, sickly, sallow, as white as a sheet, as white as a ghost, deathly pale, cadaverous, corpselike, ghostlike, spectral;
informal like death warmed up;
Scottish, informal peely-wally;
rare livid, etiolated, lymphatic.
▷antonyms healthy.