ghostly

[Ghost·ly]

Something ghostly looks or sounds like a ghost strange and chilling. A ghostly figure appearing out of the fog can seem slightly unearthly.

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Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual; as, a ghostly confessor.

Adjective S.
like or being a phantom; "a ghostly face at the window"; "a phantasmal presence in the room"; "spectral emanations"; "spiritual tappings at a seance"


a.
Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual; as, a ghostly confessor.

a.
Of or pertaining to apparitions.

adv.
Spiritually; mystically.


Ghostly

Ghost"ly, a. [OE. gastlich, gostlich, AS. g'bestlic. See Ghost.] 1. Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual; as, a ghostly confessor.
Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies.
One of the gostly children of St. Jerome.
2. Of or pertaining to apparitions. Akenside.

Ghostly

Ghost"ly, adv. Spiritually; mystically. Chaucer.

Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual; as, a ghostly confessor.

Spiritually; mystically.

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Usage Examples

It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction.

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