Middle English: from obsolete gastterrify, from Old English g?stan, of Germanic origin; related to ghost. The ghspelling is by association with ghost. The sense objectionable dates from the mid 19th cent
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noun
1.shockingly repellent; inspiring horror;
ghastly wounds
2.gruesomely indicative of death or the dead;
a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones