Pronunciations (2)
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/ˈɡoʊstli/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
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ˈɡoʊstli
Pronunciation notes
- US
Adjective
Of or pertaining to ghosts or spirits.
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a ghostly figure with a hood
The graveyard was haunted by a ghostly figure of a young girl.
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The ghostly moaning was heard from upstairs.
Spooky; frightening.
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A ghostly hush fell.
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Scores of coconut-shell fires blazed with their characteristic glaring white flame, throwing grotesque shadows on the brown thatched huts, dancing in fairylike shimmerings among the domes of coconut fronds, casting ghostly reaches of light through the adjacent graveyards, and silhouetting the forms of pareu-clad natives at work cleaning their fish or laying them on the live coals to broil.
His lips were chapped and lined with a ghostly purple fringe.
Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual.
Usage- Archaic
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a ghostly confessor
Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies.
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one of the ghostly children of St. Jerome
Adjective
resembling or characteristic of a phantom
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a ghostly face at the window
a phantasmal presence in the room
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spectral emanations
spiritual tappings at a seance