meaning of ghastly
1. Like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid; dismal.
2. Horrible; shocking; dreadful; hideous.
3. In a ghastly manner; hideously.
4. shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; "ghastly wounds"; "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by
">madmen"
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