Antonyms for ghastly
ˈgæst li, ˈgɑst-ghast·ly

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1. ghastlyadjective

   Synonyms:
   lurid

2. ghastlyadjective

   Horrifyingly shocking.

   He turned ghastly pale on hearing the news.

   Synonyms:
   lurid

3. ghastlyadjective

   Extremely bad.

   The play was simply ghastly.

   Synonyms:
   lurid

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1. ghastly

   Antonyms:
   attractive, beauteous, beautiful, bewitching, bonny, charming, comely, delightful, elegant, exquisite, fair, fine, graceful, handsome, lovely, picturesque, pretty

   Synonyms:
   awkward, clumsy, deformed, disgusting, frightful, grim, grisly, grotesque, hideous, horrid, odious, repulsive, shocking, ugly, unattractive, uncouth, ungainly, unlovely, unpleasant

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1. ghastly

   Antonyms:
   blooming, fresh, comely, seemly, buxom, ruddy

   Synonyms:
   deathlike, wan, grim, cadaverous, spectral, pallid, hideous, shocking

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1. ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sickadjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   unalarming, inoffensive

   Synonyms:
   down(p), dispirited, downcast, nauseous, wan, disgusted, pale, forbidding, dismal, dark, charnel, sick, demented, disconsolate, sepulchral, black, gloomy, low, unbalanced, pallid, unrelenting, down in the mouth, stern, blue, disturbed, brainsick, unappeasable, gruesome, macabre, downhearted, grim, sickish, ill, nauseated, mordant, sick(p), unhinged, dour, fed up(p), mad, low-spirited, relentless, unforgiving, sorry, crazy, drab, depressed, dingy, inexorable, dreary, queasy, drear, grisly, sick of(p), tired of(p)

2. charnel, ghastly, sepulchraladjective

   gruesomely indicative of death or the dead

   "a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones"; "ghastly shrieks"; "the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs"

   Antonyms:
   unalarming, inoffensive

   Synonyms:
   grim, gruesome, sick, funereal, grisly, macabre, charnel, sepulchral

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1. ghastlyadjective

   Synonyms:
   cadaverous, ghostly, pallid, pale, horrible, shocking, repulsive

How to use ghastly in a sentence?

1. Piers Morgan:

   Theres nothing sleazy about it, or nasty, or even remotely problematic to quote the ghastly buzzword of modern-day political correctness.

2. Clive Staples Lewis:

   Just a hurried line...to tell a story which puts the contrast between *our* feast of the Nativity and all this ghastly Xmas racket at it's lowest. My brother heard a woman on a 'bus say, as the 'bus passed a church with a Crib outside it, Oh Lor' They bring religion into everything. Look- they're dragging it even into Christmas now

3. Andrew Gimson:

   He's not an old-style 'Euroskeptic' who takes his own tea bag with him when he gets on the channel ferry to go to some place full of ghastly foreigners, he's very good at putting the moderate case and speaking of having a relationship with Europe -- he just doesn't want Europe to be telling us what to do.

4. Prime Minister David Cameron:

   It's desperate stuff from an organization that really does do the most utterly despicable and ghastly acts, and people can see that again today, this is an organization that's losing territory, it's losing ground ... Britain will never be cowed by this sort of terrorism, our values are so much stronger than theirs. It may take a very long time but they will be defeated.

5. Emma Thompson:

   The first time I was nominated, I didn't know anything about the Oscars. That was almost 15 years ago. I just did Oscar week and enjoyed it very much because I was with my mum. Even so, each time it's happened I've come down with some ghastly infection. It is overwhelming for people. It has nothing to do really at all with your performance. It comes down to if you get an Oscar for your film, then the revenue for your film goes up. They mean a great deal. I can't deny it.

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