Ghoulish - English meaning

adjective

Of the very darkest colour owing to the absence of or complete absorption of light; the opposite of white.

Usage examples:

Black smoke

verb

Belonging to or denoting any human group having dark-coloured skin, especially of african or australian aboriginal ancestry.

Usage examples:

Black adolescents of jamaican descent

noun

Another term for hamburger.

adjective

Causing great horror or fear.

Usage examples:

One of the most ghastly crimes ever committed

adjective

Frightening and shocking

Usage examples:

It was a ghastly crime.

adjective

Causing horror or disgust.

Usage examples:

The town was shaken by a series of grisly crimes

adjective

Extremely unpleasant or disgusting, and usually causing fear

Usage examples:

There were grisly pictures of an automobile accident on the evening news.

adjective

Comically or repulsively ugly or distorted.

Usage examples:

A figure wearing a grotesque mask

noun

A very ugly or comically distorted figure or image.

Usage examples:

The rods are carved in the form of a series of gargoyle faces and grotesques

adjective

Strange and often frightening in appearance or character

Usage examples:

Some deep-sea creatures look really grotesque., his face was grotesquely scarred.

adjective

Causing repulsion or horror; grisly.

Usage examples:

The most gruesome murder

adjective

Extremely unpleasant and shocking

Usage examples:

The movie was pretty gruesome.

adjective

Causing or likely to cause horror; shocking.

Usage examples:

A horrible massacre

adjective

Very bad, unpleasant, or disgusting

Usage examples:

There was a horrible smell outside the factory.

adjective

Disturbing because concerned with or causing a fear of death.

Usage examples:

A macabre series of murders

adjective

Causing shock and fear because connected with death, esp. strange or cruel death

Usage examples:

After the diagnosis, he said he just wanted to stay “above ground,” she recalled, smiling at his ma…

adjective

Characterized by an abnormal and unhealthy interest in disturbing and unpleasant subjects, especially death and disease.

Usage examples:

His morbid fascination with the horrors of contemporary warfare

adjective

Too interested in unpleasant subjects, esp. death

Usage examples:

He has a morbid sense of humor.

adjective

(of a person or their actions) characterized by sexually abnormal and unacceptable practices or tendencies.

Usage examples:

He whispered perverted obscenities

verb

Distort or corrupt the original course, meaning, or state of (something).

Usage examples:

He was charged with conspiring to pervert the course of justice

adjective

(of an idea, policy, etc.) changed from its correct use or original purpose

Usage examples:

He used a perverted form of nationalism to incite anger among the crowd., you need not state the pa…

adjective

Causing intense disgust; disgusting.

Usage examples:

There was a revolting smell that lingered in the air

verb

Take violent action against an established government or ruler; rebel.

Usage examples:

The iceni revolted and had to be suppressed

adjective

Disgusting

Usage examples:

I’ve never eaten such revolting food!

adjective

Affected by physical or mental illness.

Usage examples:

Nursing very sick children

noun

Vomit.

Usage examples:

She was busy wiping sick from the carpet

verb

Excellent.

adjective

Harmful to health.

Usage examples:

An unhealthy diet

adjective

Ill or appearing to be ill

Usage examples:

It’s unhealthy to eat fatty foods all the time.

adjective

Not characterized by or conducive to health or moral well-being.

Usage examples:

The use of the living room as sleeping quarters led to unwholesome crowding

adjective

Not good for you, and likely to have a bad effect on your life either physically, morally, or emotionally

Usage examples:

She stays up all night in unwholesome places., we avoid alcohol, tobacco, and other unwholesome thi…