ghast
/ɡæst/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.52 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Alternative form of gast.
adj
Having a ghastly appearance; weird.
noun
An evil spirit or monster; a ghoul.
Example Sentences
- "The cliff-ghast wrenched off the fox's head, and fought his brothers for the entrails."
- "The most powerful of all undead creatures, ghasts feed on ghosts, dead souls and, most especially, live ones. They want to take over Iltior and set up a ghast empire."
- "A malamanteau, or malapropistically used neologism that is also a portmanteau (yeah, isn't that a conceptual mouthful), the ghast was an incidental combination of ghost and ghastly […] As the post-interview continued, Carlos and I laughed as we recognized his malamanteau, what he chucklingly redescribed as a "ghastly ghost" […] "Ghast" is a neologism and portmanteau of ghost and ghastly that was used malapropistically. This, thus, constitutes a malamanteau."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: gasten, gāstan
Inflected Forms
ghasts (present, singular)
ghasting (participle, present)
ghasted (participle, past)
ghasted (past)
more ghast (comparative)
most ghast (superlative)
ghasts (plural)