关于Ghastly的意思和用法的提问

A: 恐ろしい
怖い
お化けのイメージ
あとたまに病気そう

A: That shirt is ghastly. The accident was ghastly. The contenders for the election are ghastly. My English is ghastly.

A: This is an uncommon word most likely to be seen in novels. It can mean either scary/terrifying, or very sick/unwell/feeling horrible.

That murder scene was a ghastly sight. I don't think I can sleep after seeing it.

Your expression looks absolutely ghastly! Are you alright?

A: That shirt you’re wearing is ghastly! Take it off at once!

A: All three words describe something negatively but can be used in different contexts. Hideous basically means the same as “ugly” and refers to how something looks. For example, “That colour is hideous”. A few of the ways to use the word unpleasant include describing a situation that is uncomfortable or a person who is not kind/polite. For example, “He’s always unpleasant towards us”. Synonyms for ghastly include horrible, awful, and terrifying, and it be used to describe something frightening or grim, like a crime scene or a scary story.

A: both can be used interchangeably in my opinion, but otherwise I'd say the word 'ghastly' is used when you are shocked or scared by something, and the word 'awful' is used when you think something is bad or horrible.

Examples:
The movie made the audience a ghastly shade of white (The audience became afraid because of the movie)

I told her I had seen an awful picture online (The person had seen a horrible picture that made them feel bad or not good)

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A: Ghastly: unpleasant, causes fear. horror, can also mean someone who looks or feels unwell.
"I went to see Jane yesterday, and she looked just ghastly." (She didn't look healthy and well, she looked pale and sick).
"The cut on her arm was ghastly; I couldn't even look at it!" (The cut was awful to look at, and made me feel a bit sick / fearful).

Lousy: poor, not good, bad quality, disgusting
"The food here is really lousy." (It doesn't taste good at all).
"The service last night was lousy!" (The restaurant had bad service).

Terrifying: very scary, frightening
"That haunted house was terrifying! I didn't think we'd make it out alive!"
"The horror movie was terrifying! I couldn't sleep after watching it."
"Spiders are terrifying. Even seeing a picture of one scares me!"

Frightful: scary, terrible, unpleasant, shocking, horrible, gross, awful
"Those hotel rooms were frightful!" (They were terrible, unclean, and I am shocked that they were so bad!)
"When I was home alone, I heard frightful sounds coming from the basement." (The sounds coming from the basement scared me, and I felt uneasy and surprised to hear them).

Dreadful: something that causes suffering, fear, unhappiness, an action that one hates doing, poor or bad
"This homework is dreadful." (I hate doing my homework; it's difficult, and I'm not enjoying it at all).
"His manners are dreadful." (He is not very well-behaved. He is rude.)
"I cut my finger and the pain is dreadful!" (It hurts so much!)

I would say that terrifying is most used when speaking. Lousy is also quite common as is dreadful. Ghastly and frightful you probably won't hear as often.

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