different between cadaverous vs ghastly

cadaverous

English

Etymology

cadaver +? -ous

Adjective

cadaverous (comparative more cadaverous, superlative most cadaverous)

  1. Corpselike; hinting of death; imitating a cadaver.
    • 1917 rev. 1925 Ezra Pound, "Canto I"
      Dark blood flowed in the fosse,
      Souls out of Erebus, cadaverous dead ...

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:cadaverous

Translations

See also

  • cadaverously

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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)

  1. 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.
  2. Horrifyingly shocking.
  3. Extremely bad.

Synonyms

  • (sickly pale): See also Thesaurus:pallid
  • (horrifyingly shocking): lurid

Translations

Adverb

ghastly (not comparable)

  1. 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?"

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