ghoulish
/ˈɡuː.lɪʃ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.41 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to ghouls.
adj
Of or pertaining to corpses and graverobbing.
adj
Fascinated by corpses; morbid.
Example Sentences
- "Ay, even the droll humour and solidity of Khalid, are shaken, aroused, by the ghoulish greed, the fell inhumanity of these sharpers."
- "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."
- "We’ll be neither ghoulish nor squeamish about death; it happens, the chances increase with age, and we need to take the possibility into consideration."
- "At times it seemed almost an afterthought, during an extended trial subject to ghoulish fascination, that Don Patterson, Gail Patterson and Heather Wilkinson died terrible deaths."
Etymology
Etymology tree English ghoul Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -isch English -ish English ghoulish From ghoul + -ish.
Inflected Forms
more ghoulish (comparative)
most ghoulish (superlative)