ghastly, adj. 1. frightful, dreadful, awful, terrible, horrid, horrible, horrendous, hideous, ugly, frightening, terrifying, Inf scary; gruesome, grisly, gory, disgusting, repulsive, repugnant, revolting, sickening, Sl. gross.
2. drawn, haggard, worn, Inf. beat, drained, washed-out; pale, pale-faced, pallid, wan, blanched, ashen, colorless, hueless; pasty, pasty-faced, white, white as a sheet, white as a ghost, ghostly, ghost-like, spectral; cadaverous, corpse-like, deathlike, like death warmed over.
3. terrible, very bad, unforgiveable, abominable, abhorrent, apalling, shocking; odious, heinous, criminal, foul, loathesome, contemptible; mean, nasty, dirty, low, base.
ghost, n. 1. spirit, soul, shade, (all in Roman religion) manes, lemures, larvae; specter, Inf. spook, revenant, wraith, (in Irish folklore) banshee; Doppel-ganger, doubleganger; apparition, phantom, eidolon, phantasm, phantasma, materialization, illusion, delusion, hallucination, mirage, image, representation.
2. demon, devil, evil spirit; goblin, hobgoblin, boogeyman.
3. shadow, trace, hint, suggestion, impression, semblance, appearance.
ghostly, adj. 1. ghost-like, spectral, phantom-like; unreal, illusory, illusive, shadowy, phantasmal, phan-tasmic, phantasmical, phantasmatic; supernatural, preternatural, unearthly, wierd, strange, uncanny, mysterious, frightening, Inf. scary, Inf. spooky, haunted.
2. ghastly, pale, white, white as a sheet, white as a ghost. See - ghastly (def. 2).
ghoul, n. 1. demon, devil, evil spirit, fiend, suc-
cubus, incubus, lamia; goblin, hobgoblin, bogy, bogy- man; monster, ogre, brute, savage; cannibal, man-eater, anthropophagite; vampire, werewolf.
2. grave robber, body snatcher; necrophile, necrophiliac.
ghoulish, adj. 1. fiendish, diabolic, diabolical, devilish; satanic, Mephistophelian, demonian, demonic, demoniacal, cacodemonic; infernal, hellish, hell-born.
2. inhuman, barbarous, barbaric, savage, Tartarian, Hunnish, Vandalic; brutal, brutish, murderous, slaughterous, bloodthirsty, sadistic; ferocious, ruthless, vicious, feral, ferine; pitiless, merciless, heartless, cruel, cold-blooded; monstrous, hideous, abominable, horrible, horrid, horrendous, accursed, damnable.
giant, n. 1. colossus, titan, man-mountain, giantess, Amazon, (collective) nephilim; Goliath, Panta-gruel, Brobdingnagian, Antaeus, Cyclops, Briareus, Cottus, Gyges, Gog, Magog, Og, King Kong, Paul Bunyan; behemoth, leviathan, monster, mammoth, mastodon, dinosaur; elephant, jumbo, whale, hippopotamus, hippo.
2. strongman, Hercules, Samson, muscleman, powerhouse, tower of strength; bruiser, stalwart, Inf. big guy, Superman, Tarzan; strapper, hulk, block, Inf whopper, Inf. thumper.
-adj. 3. huge, enormous, colossal. See - gigantic.
4. great, eminent, celebrated, grand, distinguished, illustrious; prominent, influential, renowned, notable, famous, famed.
gibber, v. 1. babble, prate, tattle, twaddle, Brit. twattle; patter, gabble, blather, drivel, Sl. gibber-jabber, jargon; mutter, mumble, splutter, sputter, stammer.
2. chatter, jabber, prattle, cackle, speak foolishly;