Ghoulish

Definition: Ghoulish

Ghoulish

Adjective

1. Suggesting the horror of death and decay; "morbid details".

Date "ghoulish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1912. (references)

Synonym: Ghoulish

Synonym: morbid (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Ghoulish

Specialty definitions using "ghoulish": Bats. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	She spoke from her coffin, and made ghoulish demands. (Vincent; writing credit: Tim Burton)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Body Snatchers, Stiffs and Other Ghoulish Delights (reference) Ghastly, Ghoulish, Gripping Tales (reference) Ghoulish Book of Weird Records (reference) Ghoulish Giggles and Monster Riddles (reference) Ghoulish Treats: Sticker Book (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Ghoulish" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 92.00% of the time. "Ghoulish" is used about 50 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	92%	46	50,285
Lexical Verb (base form)	6%	3	202,518
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	2%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	50	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "ghoulish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		makabër, i neveritshëm (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, beastly, contemptible, damnable, damned, despicable, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, execrable, fulsome, heinous, hideous, loathful, loathsome, nauseating, noisome, obnoxious, odious, putrid, rank, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sickening, sickly, slimy, sordid, squalid, unclean, unsavory, unsavoury), i kobshëm (ghastly). (various references)

Arabic		‏كالغول, ‏قذر (augean, beastly, contaminated, crummy, defiled, dingy, dirt, dirty, disreputable, dungy, filthy, foul, grimy, grubby, impure, lousy, mean, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, pig, piggish, polluted, rubbishy, sinful, slattern, slatternly, slob, sloppy, slovenly, smutty, soil, sordid, squalid, unclean, uncleanly, untidy, verminous, vile), ‏جني (leprechaun), ‏شنيع (atrocious, awful, crying, enormous, foul, ghastly, gruesome, heinous, hideous, monstrous, nefarious, obnoxious, outrageous, ugly). (various references)

Bulgarian		жесток (bestial, bloody, butcherly, cruel, dark, diabolic, diabolical, draconian, draconic, fell, ferocious, fiendish, fierce, grinding, harsh, ill, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, iron, mean, merciless, monstrous, outrageous, sanguinary, shrewd, slashing, truculent, unfeeling, unkind, unmerciful, unrelenting), подобен на вампир. (various references)

Czech		morbidní (morbid, sick), démonický (daedal, daemonic, demoniacal, demonic), èerný (black, dark, grimy, illegal, illicit, unlucky). (various references)

French		vampirique, satanique, morbide, macabre, de goule. (various references)

German		schaurig (abysmal, awful, bloodcurdling, dreadful, gruesome, scary, spine-chilling), makaber (macabre, macabrely, morbid, sick). (various references)

Hebrew		מתועב (abhorrent, abominable, atrocious, execrable, heinous, hideous, infamous, repulsive, vile), ש�"י (demonic, devilish). (various references)

Hungarian		hátborzongató (creepy, eerie, eery, eldritch, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, morbid, uncanny, weird). (various references)

Italian		demoniaco (daemoniac, daemoniacal, demoniac, demoniacal, fiendish). (various references)

Manx		gowlagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		oulishghay

Portuguese		vampiro (vampire), vampiresco, macabro (gristle, gruesome, macabre). (various references)

Russian		дьявольский (blinking, demonic, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		jezovit (hair raising). (various references)

Spanish		sádico (sadist, sadistic), macabro (grim, gruesome, horrible, macabre), de fuerza negra (devil). (various references)

Swedish		makaber (lurid, macabre, morbid, sick), demonisk (daemoniacal, daemonic, demoniacal, demonic). (various references)

Thai		น่าเกลีย�"น่ากลัว (gorgon, horrible). (various references)

Turkish		korkunç (appalling, awesome, awful, cruel, desperate, dire, direful, disastrous, disgusting, dreadfull, eldritch, fearful, fearsome, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, gory, grim, grisly, gruesome, haircurling, hair-raiser, hellish, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, lurid, monstrous, redoubtable, scary, shocking, sickening, terrible, terrific, terrifying), iğrenç (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, cloying, crying, damn, damned, detestable, dirty, disgusting, distasteful, dread, dreadfull, execrable, filthy, foul, frightful, god-awful, grievous, hatable, hateable, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, infernal, loathsome, lousy, mangy, mawkish, nasty, nauseous, noisome, obnoxious, odious, offensive, putrid, rancid, rank, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, scummy, shocking, sick, sickening, sickly, slimy, squirmy, stinking, ugly, vile, villainous, yuck), hortlak gibi. (various references)

Ukranian		огидний (abhorrent, abject, abominable, accursed, accurst, antipathetic, antipathetical, atrocious, beastly, bilious, brackish, brutal, carrion, damnable, damned, detestable, disgusting, dreadful, evil, execrable, filthy, grim, hanging, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, loathful, loathsome, mawkish, mucky, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, nefandous, noisome, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, pesky, poisonous, putrid, rank, repellent, repulsive, revolting, shocking, snotty, sordid, sour, stinking, underfoot, wicked), мерзенний (abhorrent, abject, abominable, atrocious, caitiff, hangdog, hateful, heinous, nasty, nefandous, nefarious, niddering, odious, sordid, villainous, wretched). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "ghoulish": ghoulishly, ghoulishness, ghoulishnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Ghoulish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ghoulies, goulish. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "ghoulish" (pronounced guw"lish)
3	-l i sh	accomplish, demolish, devilish, embellish, establish, girlish, hellish, polish, publish, purplish, reestablish, relish, smallish, stylish, ticklish.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "g-h-h-i-l-o-s-u"
	-2 letters: ghouls, loughs, slough.
	-3 letters: ghoul, highs, hilus, iglus, lough, louis, sough.
	-4 letters: ghis, gosh, guls, gush, high, hogs, hols, hugs, hush, iglu, logs, lugs, lush, oils, shog, shul, sigh, silo, slog, slug, soil, soli, soul, sugh, ughs.
	-5 letters: ghi, gos, gul, his, hog, hug, huh, lis, log, lug, ohs, oil, shh, sol, sou, ugh.
	Words containing the letters "g-h-h-i-l-o-s-u"
	+2 letters: ghoulishly, lighthouse.
	+3 letters: houselights, lighthouses.
	+4 letters: ghoulishness, hygrophilous.
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