Meaning of GHOSTLY
| Pronunciation: | | gowstlee
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| | Definition: | | [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" |
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| | Synonyms: | | apparitional, ghostlike, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual, supernatural |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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