Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Like a ghost or specter; deathlike.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Like a ghost; ghastly.
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- adjective Seemingly
invisible ; as aghost , similar to aghost .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective resembling or characteristic of a phantom
Etymologies
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Examples
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Last week, North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency dismissed him as a "ghostlike" presence "never recognized" by Pyongyang.
daytondailynews.com - News ELIANE ENGELER 2010
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Last week, North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency dismissed him as a "ghostlike" presence "never recognized" by Pyongyang.
The Seattle Times 2010
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He knows that he too will become ghostlike unless he finds his own home.
Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011
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In September, for example, an experiment there reported ghostlike particles known as neutrinos apparently traveling a tiny bit faster than light, an apparent breach of the cosmic speed limit set down by Albert Einstein.
Physicists Close In on a Universal Puzzle Gautam Naik 2011
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A second and a third canoe came around the bend from below, glided ghostlike to the crossing of the runaways, and vanished in the mangroves.
Chapter 22 2010
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A contrasting highlight will be a magical painting from 1963 by French Pop master Martial Raysse depicting a ghostlike portrait of a woman, with a pink face and a powder puff over one eye, emerging from a psychedelic green-and-blue background estimate: £350,000-£450,000.
A Frenzy of Contemporary Art Margaret Studer 2011
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Of course, the existence of these ghostlike entities entirely depends on character perspective, and the story does tend to go on and on for a while.
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Scenes in the film show pristine cherry blossoms, wrecked cemeteries and ghostlike policemen searching for corpses.
Three Ways of Looking at a Disaster Mary M. Lane 2012
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The ghostlike clouds added to the creepy atmosphere.
Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011
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The ghostlike clouds added to the creepy atmosphere.
Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011
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