ghastful

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English gastful, equivalent to ghast +‎ -ful. See ghastly.

Adjective

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ghastful (comparative more ghastful, superlative most ghastful)

  1. (archaic) Causing fear; terrifying.
    • 1922, E. R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros:
      Very desolate was that valley, having a dark aspect and a ghastful, such as a man might look for in the infernal glens of Pyriphlegethon or Acheron.
  2. (archaic) Terrified, frightened.
    • 1716, Samuel Wesley, The history of the Old and New Testament attempted in verse, page 13:
      Th' Almighty anſwers — "I my ſelf will place
      "The dreadful Stains of Murther on the Face,
      "That all may ſhun thy Crimes and Fate. — He ſaid,
      The Caitiff heard, with ghaſtful Looks he fled.

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