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.
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- 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
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Examples
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A full moon was drenching the mountains in ghostly light as some 60
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The Palaeologi reigned in ghostly supremacy over the shreds and tatters of Byzantium until the Turks seized Constantinople in 1453.
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"Places Where Shadows Grow" gets into those stories the Sci-Fi Channel likes to mention in ghostly documentaries around the Halloween holiday season.
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That indeterminacy is itself masked in ghostly reflections of a former paradigm.
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Blank rectangular patches edged with reddish dust — ghost pictures in ghostly frames — showed where, no doubt, there had been photographs of the Shah and his family or his monuments.
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Night came on, and a full moon rose high over the trees into the sky, lighting the land till it lay bathed in ghostly day.
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I suspect that the feeling we call ghostly is but the sense of abandonment in the lack of companion life; but be this as it may,
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After months chided in ghostly Twilight spoof spearheaded by Jimmy Fallon, Robert Pattinson is reportedly set to come face-to-face with the comedian on NBC’s Late Night next month.
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"You can see people when they take a shower," he says, referring to the ghostly silhouette visible from the ground floor and the stairwell.
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I admit that there were some parts in the movie that freaked me out, namely the ghostly figures at the beginning of the movie that Rosa saw out of the corner of her eye.
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