ghoulish
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡuː.lɪʃ/
- Rhymes: -uːlɪʃ
Adjective
ghoulish (comparative more ghoulish, superlative most ghoulish)
- Of or pertaining to ghouls.
- Synonym: ghouly
- 1910 January 12, Ameen Rihani, “Via Dolorosa”, in The Book of Khalid, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published October 1911, →OCLC, book the first (In the Exchange), page 29:
- Ay, even the droll humour and solidity of Khalid, are shaken, aroused, by the ghoulish greed, the fell inhumanity of these sharpers.
- Of or pertaining to corpses and graverobbing.
- 1922, H. P. Lovecraft, Herbert West: Reanimator:
- We had that afternoon dug a grave in the cellar, and would have to fill it by dawn -- for although we had fixed a lock on the house, we wished to shun even the remotest risk of a ghoulish discovery.
- Fascinated by corpses.
Translations
of or pertaining to ghouls
of or pertaining to corpses and graverobbing
fascinated by corpses
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