Even more dreadful
Ghastlier is the comparative form of ghastly—more shocking, gruesome, or horrifying.
What seems terrible can always get worse: Each chapter revealed ghastlier details than the last.
The word carries ghastly's sense of death-like pallor or dread, intensified.
More apt to frighten
grimmer · bleaker · drearier · nastier · uglier · viler · grosser
More graphically violent
More drained of hue
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Even more dreadful
Ghastlier is the comparative form of ghastly—more shocking, gruesome, or horrifying.
What seems terrible can always get worse: Each chapter revealed ghastlier details than the last.
The word carries ghastly's sense of death-like pallor or dread, intensified.
1. comparative — scarier, More apt to frighten; creepier (More unnervingly strange); eerier (More disturbingly strange); spookier (More eerily frightening); grimmer · bleaker · drearier · nastier · uglier · viler · grosser
2. gruesome — gorier, More graphically violent; bloodier (More covered in gore)
3. spectral — paler, More drained of hue
pleasantness/appealghastlier ≠ lovelier More attractive, more pleasing; pleasanter · gentler · milder · nicer
aesthetic qualityghastlier ≠ lovelier More attractive, more pleasing; more attractive · prettier · fairer · comelier
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