Usually means: Morbid fascination with death, macabre.
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  1. ghoulish: Merriam-Webster
  2. ghoulish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ghoulish: Collins English Dictionary
  4. ghoulish: Vocabulary.com
  5. Ghoulish, ghoulish: Wordnik
  6. ghoulish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. ghoulish: Wiktionary
  8. ghoulish: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Ghoulish, ghoulish: Dictionary.com
  10. ghoulish: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Ghoulish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. ghoulish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. ghoulish: Rhymezone
  14. Ghoulish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. ghoulish: FreeDictionary.org
  16. ghoulish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. ghoulish: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. ghoulish: Legal dictionary

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  1. ghoulish: Encyclopedia

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  1. ghoulish: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See ghoul as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of or pertaining to ghouls.
adjective:  Of or pertaining to corpses and graverobbing.
adjective:  Fascinated by corpses.

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