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ghastfull

ghastfull 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 ghastfull

comparativemore ghastfull
superlativemost ghastfull

Origin of ghastfull

From ghast + -full.

Questions about ghastfull

What is ghastfull the obsolete form of?
Ghastfull is the obsolete form of ghastful.

Words near ghastfull in the dictionary

  1. Ghassulian
  2. Ghassulians
  3. ghast
  4. ghasted
  5. ghastful
  6. ghastfull
  7. ghastfully
  8. ghastfulness
  9. ghastily
  10. ghasting
  11. ghastlier

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