ghostly
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ghostly
characteristic of a ghost; phantasmal; spectral; wraithlike; unearthly: a ghostly silence
Not to be confused with:
ghastly – dreadful; horrible: a ghastly murder; deathlike, pallid, cadaverous
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ghost·ly
(gōst′lē)adj. ghost·li·er, ghost·li·est
1. Of, relating to, or resembling a ghost, a wraith, or an apparition; spectral.
2. Of or relating to the soul or spirit; spiritual.
ghost′li·ness n.
ghost′ly adv.
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ghostly
(ˈɡəʊstlɪ)adj, -lier or -liest
1. of or resembling a ghost; spectral: a ghostly face appeared at the window.
2. suggesting the presence of ghosts; eerie
3. archaic of or relating to the soul or spirit
ˈghostliness n
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ghost•ly
(ˈgoʊst li)adj. -li•er, -li•est.
1. of, characteristic of, or resembling a ghost; spectral.
2. spiritual.
[before 900]
ghost′li•ness, n.
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Adj. | 1. | ghostly - resembling or characteristic of a phantom; "a ghostly face at the window"; "a phantasmal presence in the room"; "spectral emanations"; "spiritual tappings at a seance" supernatural - not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material; "supernatural forces and occurrences and beings" |
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ghostly
adjective unearthly, weird, phantom, eerie, supernatural, uncanny, spooky (informal), spectral, eldritch (poetic), ghostlike, phantasmal The moon shed a ghostly light on the fields.
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ghostly
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Translations
شَبَحي
přízračný
åndelig
draugalegur
kot duh
hayalet gibi
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
ghostly
[ˈgəʊstli] adj → fantomatiqueghost story n → histoire f de revenantsghost town n → ville f fantômeghost train n (British) → train m fantômeghost-write [ˈgəʊstraɪt] vtHe didn't write it, the book was ghost-written → Il ne l'a pas écrit, le livre a été écrit par un nègre.
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ghostly
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
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ghost
(gəust) noun a spirit, usually of a dead person. Do you believe in ghosts?; Hamlet thought he saw his father's ghost.
ˈghostly adjective of or like a ghost or ghosts. a ghostly figure.
give up the ghost to die.
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