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Ghastly Spelled Gastli ɡæstli Sleepless Night Looked 经过一个无眠的夜晚,她看起来非常可怕

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Pron ['ɡæstli]
Back 【GHASTLY】
After a sleepless night, she looked very ghastly.
经过一个无眠的夜晚,她看起来非常可怕。
【重点词汇】
ghastly adj. 可怕的 同: ghostlike
Vocab
ghastlyshockingly repellent; inspiring horror

Something that's ghastly isn't just gross. It's shockingly, horrifyingly unpleasant — so gruesome and grisly that it makes you want to puke.

An adjective used to describe that which inspires visions of death and feelings of revulsion, ghastly originated circa 1300. It is very close in meaning to the similarly spelled ghostly. In fact, the word in Old English was originally spelled gastli. But over the years, people confused gastli with ghost, began to adopt the gh- spelling. But don't you forget the "h" - that would be a ghastly spelling error on your part.

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