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gastful

gastful is the alternative form of ghastful.

Meaning of ghastful

Adjective

ghastful (comparative more ghastful, superlative most ghastful)

  1. (archaic) Causing fear; terrifying.
    • 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.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, chapter 174, in The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC
  2. (archaic) Terrified, frightened.
    • 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.1716, Samuel Wesley, The history of the Old and New Testament attempted in verse, page 13

Forms of gastful

comparativemore gastful
superlativemost gastful

Questions about gastful

What is gastful the alternative form of?
Gastful is the alternative form of ghastful.

Words near gastful in the dictionary

  1. gasters
  2. gasteruptiid
  3. gasteruptiids
  4. gasteruptionid
  5. gasteruptionids
  6. gastful
  7. gastfull
  8. gasthaus
  9. gasthauses
  10. gastight
  11. gastightness

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