Unfriendly vs Ghastly - What's the difference?

Unfriendly is a related term of ghastly.

As adjectives the difference between unfriendly and ghastly

is that unfriendly is not friendly; hostile; mean while ghastly is like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid; dismal.

As a noun unfriendly

is an enemy.

As an adverb ghastly is

in a ghastly manner.

unfriendly

English

Adjective

(en-adj)

not friendly; hostile; mean

unfavourable

Antonyms

* friendly

Derived terms

* user-unfriendly

Noun

(unfriendlies)

An enemy.

* 2005 , Ted Dekker, Thunder of Heaven (page 217)

Sweep the valley compound and eliminate any unfriendlies you encounter.

* 2008 , Dennis Wengert, A Very Healthy Insanity (page 44)

You see, the mission of almost every teenage girl on the loose is to first identify the targets, just like a war. These include the primary objective (the boy), the enemy (other girls), the friendlies (sympathetic girl friends and the boy's family), and unfriendlies (other boys).

ghastly

English

Adjective

(er)

Like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid; dismal.

*(Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)

*:Each turned his face with a ghastly pang.

* (1800-1859)

*:His face was so ghastly that it could scarcely be recognized.

Horrifyingly shocking.

*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail.

*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.

Extremely bad.

Synonyms

* lurid

Adverb

(-)

In a ghastly manner.

He turned ghastly pale on hearing the news.