What does ghostly mean?
Ghostly means Of or pertaining to ghosts or spirits..
Looking up this word…
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
/ˈɡoʊstli/ · adjective
Of or pertaining to ghosts or spirits..
a ghostly figure with a hood
The graveyard was haunted by a ghostly figure of a young girl.
The ghostly moaning was heard from upstairs.
A ghostly hush fell.
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.
a ghostly confessor
Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies.
Use ghostly when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Ghostly means Of or pertaining to ghosts or spirits..
Common synonyms include apparitional, ghastly, ghostish, ghostlike.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
a ghostly figure with a hood
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.