Ghast vs Ghastful - What's the difference?
ghast | ghastful |
(label) Causing fear; terrifying; dreadful; fit to make one aghast; exceedingly dismal.
* 1922 , , The Worm Ouroboros :
(label) Terrified, frightened.
* 1716 , , The history of the Old and New Testament attempted in verse ,
As adjectives the difference between ghast and ghastful
is that ghast is having a ghastly appearance; weird while ghastful is (label) causing fear; terrifying; dreadful; fit to make one aghast; exceedingly dismal.As a verb ghast
is .ghast
English
Etymology 1
Variation of gast, from (etyl) gasten, from (etyl) . More at (l).Derived terms
* (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)Etymology 2
Poetic abbreviation of ghastly.ghastful
English
Alternative forms
* (l), (l)Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
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- Th' Almighty an?wers — "I my ?elf will place
- "The dreadful Stains of Murther on the Face,
- "That all may ?hun thy Crimes'' and ''Fate . — He ?aid,
- The Caitiff'' heard, with ''gha?tful Looks he fled.