ghast
Pale with terror
Ghast is an archaic or poetic past tense of ghast, meaning to terrify or make aghast.
The word survives mainly in its participial form ghasted, appearing occasionally in literary contexts: The ghasted villagers fled the burning church.
In gaming, particularly Minecraft, a ghast is a floating ghost-like creature that shoots fireballs.
Fascinated by death grotesquely
- morbidUnhealthily drawn to darkness
- gruesomeCausing horror and disgust
- grotesqueDistorted, bizarre figure
- cadaverousResembling the deceased
skeletal · deathly · charnel · sepulchral · necrotic · corpselike · pallid · gaunt
Apparition of the dead
- specterGhostly threatening presence
- phantomInsubstantial apparition
- wraithSpectral apparition of someone
- apparitionVisible supernatural manifestation
spirit · shade · revenant · poltergeist · banshee · phantasm · ethereal · incorporeal
Occupied by ghosts
- spookyUnsettlingly strange
- supernaturalBeyond natural explanation
- uncannyEerily beyond normal
- otherworldlySeemingly not earthly
chilling · creepy · sinister · unsettling · eldritch · unearthly · weird · preternatural
Solidified or fear-paralyzed
- terror-strickenOverwhelmed by extreme dread
- horror-strickenOverwhelmed with intense fright
- appalledShocked by wrongness
- dismayedDistressed by shock
frightened · dread · trembling · shuddering · paralyzed · blanched · recoiling · stricken
ghoulish
Fascinated by death grotesquely
- morbidUnhealthily drawn to darkness
- gruesomeCausing horror and disgust
- grotesqueDistorted, bizarre figure
cadaverous · skeletal · deathly · charnel · sepulchral · necrotic · corpselike · pallid · gaunt · hollow-eyed
ghost
Apparition of the dead
- specterGhostly threatening presence
- phantomInsubstantial apparition
- wraithSpectral apparition of someone
apparition · spirit · shade · revenant · poltergeist · banshee · phantasm · ethereal · incorporeal · spectral
haunted
Occupied by ghosts
- spookyUnsettlingly strange
- supernaturalBeyond natural explanation
- uncannyEerily beyond normal
otherworldly · chilling · creepy · sinister · unsettling · eldritch · unearthly · weird · preternatural · spine-tingling
petrified
Solidified or fear-paralyzed
- terror-strickenOverwhelmed by extreme dread
- horror-strickenOverwhelmed with intense fright
- appalledShocked by wrongness
dismayed · frightened · dread · trembling · shuddering · paralyzed · blanched · recoiling · stricken · unnerved