ghastly

形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义
英 /ˈɡɑːs(t).li/    美 /ˈɡæs(t).li/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Like a ghost in appearance; death-like; pale; pallid; dismal.
    — Each turned his face with a ghastly pang.
  2. Horrifyingly shocking.
    — Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail.
  3. Extremely bad. colloquial,dated
    — The play was simply ghastly.
副词 adv.
  1. In a ghastly manner.
    — Her face was ghastly pale, and perhaps rendered still more so by the blueish light of the fire.

词形变化

ghastlier comparative ghastliest superlative more ghastly comparative ghastlier comparative most ghastly superlative ghastliest superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
ghast ghastily ghastlily ghastliness unghastly

词源

词源 1
From a conflation of gastly, from Middle English gastly, from gasten (from Old English gǣstan (“to torment, frighten”)) + -ly, and ghostly (which was also spelt gastlich in Middle English). Equivalent to ghast/gast + -ly. Spelling with gh developed in the 16th century due to the conflation.
词源 2
From a conflation of gastly, from Middle English gastly, from gasten (from Old English gǣstan (“to torment, frighten”)) + -ly, and ghostly (which was also spelt gastlich in Middle English). Equivalent to ghast/gast + -ly. Spelling with gh developed in the 16th century due to the conflation.
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