Ghastly
Ghastly adjective - Extremely disturbing or repellent.
Usage example: a ghastly murder that shocked even hard-bitten detectives
Horrible
Horrible adjective - Extremely disturbing or repellent.
Usage example: a horrible car accident that left eyewitnesses in a state of shock
Ghastly is a synonym for horrible in dreadful topic. You can use "Ghastly" instead an adjective "Horrible", if it concerns topics such as good, unpleasant, nasty, terrible. popular alternative
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- repulsive and ghastly
- repulsive and horrible
- disgusting and ghastly
- disgusting and horrible
- abominable and ghastly
- abominable and horrible
- lurid and ghastly
- lurid and horrible
- hideous and ghastly
- hideous and horrible
- terrible and ghastly
- terrible and horrible
- atrocious and ghastly
- atrocious and horrible
Both words in one sentence
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That is to say, the man will have a ghastly nightmare, then as the most horrible part plays out, will startle awake and sigh in relief... only to realize he's in a worse nightmare.
Source: Or Was It a Dream? -
Nergal tells his son to spike some of Granny Grim's pizza sauce with his "horrible, ghastly elixir." When Nergal Jr.
Source: Side-Effects Include... -
Killer Toon: Mi-suk's mother suffers from a horrible facial disfigurement (cause unspecified) that includes among other things a missing eye, ghastly scarring, and holes in her cheek.
Source: Murder by Inaction
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