What is "ghostly" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does ghostly mean in English? Meaning of ghostly definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "ghostly" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "ghostly": resembling or characteristic of a phantom

Adjective

  • Meaning: resembling or characteristic of a phantom
  • Example: a ghostly face at the window a phantasmal presence in the room spectral emanations spiritual tappings at a seance
  • Synonyms: apparitional ghostlike ghostly phantasmal spectral spiritual
  • Similar: supernatural
  • Adjective: Of or pertaining to ghosts or spirits. a ghostly figure with a hood. the graveyard was haunted by a ghostly figure of a young girl. the ghostly moaning was heard from upstairs.Spooky; frightening.Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual. a ghostly confessor Book of Common Prayer Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies. Jeremy Taylor One of the ghostly children of St. Jerome.Book of Common Prayer Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies.Jeremy Taylor One of the ghostly children of St. Jerome.
  • Synonyms:

    spectral, scary, eerie, shadowy, supernatural, ghastly, weird, cadaverous, divine, haunted, holy, illusory, insubstantial, pale, phantom, spiritual, uncanny, unearthly, wan, deathlike, ghostlike, phantasmal, apparitional, corpselike, eidolic, vampiric, wraithlike, wraithy,

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    ghostly in English: ghostly
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