ghoulish

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Of or pertaining to ghouls.
    — Ay, even the droll humour and solidity of Khalid, are shaken, aroused, by the ghoulish greed, the fell inhumanity of these sharpers.
  2. Of or pertaining to corpses and graverobbing.
    — We had that afternoon dug a grave in the cellar, and would have to fill it by dawn -- for although we had fixed a lock on the house, we wished to shun even the remotest risk of a ghoulish discovery.
  3. Fascinated by corpses; morbid.
    — We’ll be neither ghoulish nor squeamish about death; it happens, the chances increase with age, and we need to take the possibility into consideration.

词形变化

more ghoulish comparative most ghoulish superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
ghoulishly ghoulishness unghoulish
相关词
ghastly macabre

词源

Etymology tree
English ghoul
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English ghoulish
From ghoul + -ish.
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