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English
Etymology
From ghoul + -ish.
Pronunciation
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.
- 2024, Elie Honig, How the 2024 Election Will Reshape the Supreme Court, in: New York Magazine, October 25 2024
- 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.
Translations
of or pertaining to ghouls
of or pertaining to corpses and graverobbing
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