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Ghast vs Ghastful - What's the difference?

ghast | ghastful |

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).

Verb

(en verb)
    • Derived terms
    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Etymology 2

    Poetic abbreviation of ghastly.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having a ghastly appearance; weird.

    • ghastful

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (label) Causing fear; terrifying; dreadful; fit to make one aghast; exceedingly dismal.
  • * 1922 , , The Worm Ouroboros :
    • 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.
  • (label) Terrified, frightened.
  • * 1716 , , The history of the Old and New Testament attempted in verse , p. 13 (Google preview):
    • 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.

    Derived terms

    * ghastfully * ghastfulness (Webster 1913)