About The Word Ghostly
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Ghostly
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What's The Definition Of Ghostly?
[adj] like or being a phantom; "a ghostly face at the window"; "a phantasmal presence in the room"; "spectral emanations"; "spiritual tappings at a seance"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Ghostly: apparitional | ghostlike | phantasmal | spectral | spiritual | supernatural Related Terms | Find terms related to Ghostly: airy | asomatous | astral | blue | bodiless | cadaverous | corpselike | creepy | deadly | deathlike | deathly | deathly pale | decarnate | decarnated | discarnate | disembodied | ectoplasmic | eerie | ethereal | etheric | extramundane | ghastly | ghostish | ghostlike | ghosty | grisly | gruesome | haggard | immaterial | impalpable | imponderable | incorporate | incorporeal | insubstantial | intangible | livid | lurid | macabre | mortuary | nonmaterial | nonphysical | occult | otherworldly | pale | phantasmal | phantasmic | phantom | phantomic | phantomlike | preternatural | psychic | scary | shadowy | sinister | specterlike | spectral | spiritual | spooky | strange | supernatural | transmundane | uncanny | unearthly | unembodied | unextended | unfleshly | unnatural | unphysical | unreal | unsubstantial | unworldly | wan | weird | wraithlike | wraithy See Also | Ghostly In Webster's Dictionary \Ghost"ly\, a. [OE. gastlich, gostlich, AS. g[=a]stlic.
See {Ghost}.]
1. Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual;
as, a ghostly confessor.
Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies. --Book
of Common
Prayer [Ch. of
Eng. ]
One of the gostly children of St. Jerome. --Jer.
Taylor.
2. Of or pertaining to apparitions. --Akenside.
\Ghost"ly\, adv. Spiritually; mystically. --Chaucer. |
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