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gastfull

gastfull is the obsolete 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 gastfull

comparativemore gastfull
superlativemost gastfull

Questions about gastfull

What is gastfull the obsolete form of?
Gastfull is the obsolete form of ghastful.

Words near gastfull in the dictionary

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

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