Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or resembling a ghost, a wraith, or an apparition; spectral.
- adj. Of or relating to the soul or spirit; spiritual.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Of or pertaining to ghosts or spirituality.
- adj. Spooky; frightening.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual.
- adj. Of or pertaining to apparitions.
- adv. Spiritually; mystically.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having to do with the soul or spirit; spiritual; not of the flesh; not carnal or secular.
- Pertaining or relating to apparitions; of ghostlike character; spectral; supernatural: as, ghostly sounds; a ghostly visitant.
- Spiritually; mystically; mentally; with reference to the mind as contrasted with the sight.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. resembling or characteristic of a phantom
Etymologies
From Middle English gostly, gastlich, from Old English gāstlīċ ("spiritual, holy, clerical (not lay), ghastly, ghostly, spectral"), equivalent to ghost + -ly. Cognate with Scots gostly, gastly, gaistlie ("spiritual, ghastly, terrifying"), West Frisian geastlik ("spiritual, clerical, religious"), Dutch geestelijk ("spiritual, clerical, ecclesiastical"), German geistlich ("spiritual, sacred, religious"), Danish geistlig ("ecclesiastical, clerical"). (Wiktionary)
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