GHASTLINESS, GHASTLY
ADJECTIVES
1400 ► UGSOME ugly, hideous, disgusting, loathsome, nauseating; frightful; horrible; ghastly → chiefly Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
1508 ► ELDRITCH weird, ghostly, unnatural; frightful, hideous, ghastly, fearful, terrible → Sc.
1620 ► GASHFUL ghastly, horrid → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1633 ► GASHLY ghastly, horrid → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1656 ► LARVAL belonging to a night spirit, ghost, hobgoblin; ghastly, dreadful → obs.
1742 ► ALAGRUGOUS → ALLAGRUGOUS → MALEGRUGROUS → MALLAGRUGOUS grim, ghastly; discontented-looking → Sc.
1785 ► ELDRICK unearthly, ghostly, weird, uncanny; dreadful, ghastly, frightful → Eng. dial.
1785 ► ELDRISH unearthly, ghostly, weird, uncanny; dreadful, ghastly, frightful → Eng. dial.
1785 ► YELLERISH unearthly, ghostly, weird, uncanny; dreadful, ghastly, frightful → Eng. dial.
1785 ► YELLISH unearthly, ghostly, weird, uncanny; dreadful, ghastly, frightful → Eng. dial.
1816 ► GOUSTY desolate, dreary, gloomy; ghastly, supernatural, unearthly → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1820 ► AUSTROUS frightful, ghastly → Sc.
1826 ► GASH grim, dismal, sour-looking, ghastly → Sc.
1861 ► UNKED → UNKERD → UNKID weird, uncanny; insane; ominous of evil; horrid, ghastly, terrible → Eng. dial.
1895 ► GASTFUL ghastly → Eng. dial.
1898 ► ASTREN → AUSTERN having a frightful or ghastly appearance → Sc. (Bk.)
1905 ► UGGIN disgusting, loathsome, nauseating; frightful; horrible; ghastly → Sc. (Bk.)
NOUNS
1848 ► GASHLINESS ghastliness, dismalness
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