📖 Definitions of "Ghoulish"
adjective
- 1
Of or pertaining to ghouls.
- 2
Of or pertaining to corpses and graverobbing.
- 3
Fascinated by corpses.
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💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Ghoulish"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| morbid | (by extension) Taking an interest in, or fixating on, unhealthy or unwholesome subjects such as death, decay, disease. |
| offensive | Causing offense; arousing a visceral reaction of disgust, anger, hatred, sadness, or indignation. |
| macabrenoun | Ghastly, shocking, terrifying. |
| gruesome | Repellently frightful and shocking; ghastly, horrific. |
| gloomy | Suffering from gloom; melancholy; dejected. |
| grim | Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding. |
| dreary | Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless. |
| depressing | Causing depression or sadness. |
| dismal | Causing despair; gloomy and bleak. |
| creepy | (informal) Producing an uneasy fearful sensation, as of things crawling over one's skin. |
| dark | Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light. |
| ghostenverb | (ambitransitive, nonstandard, poetic) To make like a ghost; behave or appear as a ghost; make ghostly. |
| ghostly | Of or pertaining to ghosts or spirits. |
| ghettonoun | An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity, or race. |
| ghostological | Relating to ghostology. |
| horrifical | Of or pertaining to horror. |
| undeadly | Of or pertaining to the undead. |
| phantasmal | Of or pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, a phantom (“apparition or ghost”); ghostly, spectral. |
| spectralnoun | Of, or pertaining to, spectra; classified according to frequency or wavelength (of light etc.). |
| spookological | (informal) Relating to the study of ghosts. |
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