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ashy
English
Etymology
From Middle English asshy, asky, equivalent to ash +? -y.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?æ?i/
- Rhymes: -æ?i
Adjective
ashy (comparative ashier, superlative ashiest)
- Resembling ashes (especially in colour); (of a person’s complexion) unusually pale as a result of strong emotion, illness, etc.
- Synonyms: ashen, cineraceous, cinereous
- 1593, William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, London: Richard Field[1]
- Still is he sullein, still he lowres and frets,
- Twixt crimson shame, and anger ashie pale,
- 1636, Thomas Heywood, Loves Maistresse: or, The Queens Masque, London: John Crowch, Act IV, Scene 1,[2]
- Tell her that sicknesse, with her ashie hand,
- Hath swept away the beauty from my cheekes,
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Chapter 11, p. 126,[3]
- Again the operation; again the narcotic; again some return of colour to the ashy cheeks, and the regular breathing of healthy sleep.
- 1968, Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea, Chapter 7, p. 123,[4]
- Beyond that black clot the sea lay, pale with last ashy gleam of day.
- Comprising, containing, or covered with ash.
- Synonym: cinereous
- 1591, Edmund Spenser, “Ruines of Rome” in Complaints, London: William Ponsonby,[5]
- Ye heauenly spirites, whose ashie cinders lie
- Vnder deep ruines, with huge walls opprest,
- 1720, Alexander Pope (translator), The Iliad: of Homer, London: Bernard Lintott, Volume 6, Book 23, p. 75,[6]
- […] where yet the Embers glow,
- Wide o’er the Pyle the sable Wine they throw,
- And deep subsides the ashy Heap below.
- 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, London: Chapman and Hall, Volume 3, Chapter 10, p. 151,[7]
- […] I saw her sitting on the hearth in a ragged chair, close before, and lost in the contemplation of, the ashy fire.
- 1991, Edwidge Danticat, “A Wall of Fire Rising” in Krik? Krak! New York: Soho Press, 1995,[8]
- He lit the paper until it burned to an ashy film.
- (African-American Vernacular) Having dry or dead skin (therefore discolored).
- 1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Random House, 2002, Chapter 4, p. 22,[9]
- It was summer and his pants were short, so the pickle juice made clean streams down his ashy legs […]
- 2015, Paul Beatty, The Sellout, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Chapter 11, p. 159,[10]
- […] a skinny chalk-colored girl raised a hand so disgustingly ashy, so white and dry-skinned, that it could only be black.
- 1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Random House, 2002, Chapter 4, p. 22,[9]
Derived terms
- ashily
- ashiness
Translations
Anagrams
- Hays, SYHA, Shay, hays, shay, yahs
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ghastly
English
Etymology
From a conflation of a derivation of Old English g?stan (“to torment, frighten”) with the suffix -lic, and ghostly (which was also spelt "gastlich" in Middle English). Equivalent to ghast/gast + -ly. Spelling with 'gh' developed 16th century due to the conflation.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /????s(t).li/
- (US) IPA(key): /??æs(t).li/
Adjective
ghastly (comparative ghastlier, superlative ghastliest)
- Like a ghost in appearance; death-like; pale; pallid; dismal.
- 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- Each turned his face with a ghastly pang.
- 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- Horrifyingly shocking.
- Extremely bad.
Synonyms
- (sickly pale): See also Thesaurus:pallid
- (horrifyingly shocking): lurid
Translations
Adverb
ghastly (not comparable)
- In a ghastly manner.
- 1921, William Dudley Pelley, The Fog: A Novel, page 196:
- Johnathan's lips moved ghastly before his voice would come. "So I'm crazy, am I? And if I choose to murder you, what would you do?"
- 1921, William Dudley Pelley, The Fog: A Novel, page 196:
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