Hyphenation of ghastly

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word ghastly? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

ghast-ly

Definitions of ghastly:

1.	Shockingly repellent Inspiring horror Ghastly wounds The grim aftermath of the bombing The grim task of burying the victims A grisly murder Gruesome evidence of human sacrifice Macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages Macabre tortures conceived by madmen
2.	Gruesomely indicative of death or the dead A charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones Ghastly shrieks The sepulchral darkness of the catacombs

Synonyms of ghastly:

adj	grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, alarming
adj	charnel, sepulchral, offensive

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.