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ghoulie

ghoulie

1 9.9
A person who enjoys other people's pain or bad luck
  • noun
  • /ˈɡuːli/
  • Offensive
translation icon : morboso
  • Don't be such a ghoulie at the party!

Examples

  • She called him a ghoulie for making jokes about the disaster.

  • The tabloid reporters acted like ghoulies, chasing every tragic detail for their next headline.

  • Nobody wanted to sit near the ghoulie who laughed at the accident on the news.

  • Why do you always act like a ghoulie when someone is sad?

  • The children were scared by the ghoulie that lived under their beds.

  • Everyone avoided him at the party because he always acted like a ghoulie when someone got hurt.

  • Some people think she's a bit of a ghoulie for laughing at others' misfortunes.

Synonyms

gloater
vsghoulie
1 8.2

A person who feels happy about someone else's bad luck and shows it

takes pleasure specifically in suffering or death rather than mere failure

Antonyms

compassionate
151 3.7

Feeling concern and care for people who suffer

empathetic
30 4.4

To understand and share other people's feelings

How Cruel

sadist
  • Offensive
32 8.4
monster
  • Offensive
470 3.3
ghoulie
  • Offensive
1 9.9

Surface Forms

ghoulie singular
ghoulies plural

Morphology

ghoulie = ghoul (semi-transparent) = ghoul + ie

The sense 'morbid person who enjoys others' suffering' is a figurative extension of 'ghoul' meaning someone ghoul-like; the emotional nuance is not fully predictable for all learners.

Etymology

Ghoulie also comes from ghoul (Arabic ghul 'demon'), and with the informal ending -ie it can be a mocking or informal name for a person who likes dark or sad things, so calling someone a ghoulie suggests they take pleasure in others' misfortune or death.