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ghastly

adjective
🔊/ˈɡɑːstli/
🔊/ˈɡæstli/
(comparative ghastlier, superlative ghastliest)
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  1. (of an event事情) very frightening and unpleasant, because it involves pain, death, etc.（与疼痛、死亡等相关而）恐怖的，可怕的，令人毛骨悚然的 synonym horrible
    • a ghastly crime/murder可怕的罪行／谋杀
    • She woke up in the middle of a ghastly nightmare.她在一场噩梦中醒来。
  2. (informal) (of an experience or a situation经历或形势) very bad; unpleasant糟透的；令人不快的 synonym terrible
    • The weather was ghastly.天气糟透了。🔊🔊
    • It's all been a ghastly mistake.这是个极其恶劣的错误。🔊🔊
    • When she mentioned redundancies, for one ghastly moment, I thought she meant me.当她提到裁员时，有一瞬间，我以为她是我的意思。
  3. (informal) (of a person or thing人或物) that you find unpleasant and dislike very much令人恶心的；令人反感的；讨厌的 synonym horrible
    • her ghastly husband她那讨厌的丈夫
    • This lipstick is a ghastly colour.这唇膏的颜色令人恶心。🔊🔊
    • I look ghastly in red.我看上去很恐怖。
  4. [not usually before noun] ill or upset 有病；不适；苦恼synonym terrible
    • I felt ghastly the next day.我第二天感到身体很不舒服。🔊🔊
    • Do I look as ghastly as I feel?我看起来像我一样可怕吗？
    Topics Illnessc2
  5. (literary) very pale in appearance, like a dead person死人般苍白的
    • His face was ghastly white.他的脸色惨白。🔊🔊
    • She had a ghastly pallor.她脸色苍白难看。
    6. Word OriginMiddle English: from obsolete gast ‘terrify’, from Old English gǣstan, of Germanic origin; related to ghost. The gh spelling is by association with ghost. The sense ‘objectionable’ dates from the mid 19th cent.