Значение

значений: 3
  1. 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.

    при́зрачныйprízračnyj

  2. Spooky; frightening.

    A ghostly hush fell.

  3. (архаичное)Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual.

    a ghostly confessor

Ещё определения
  • resembling or characteristic of a phantom

Примеры

предложений: 5
  1. Tobias doesn't believe in ghostly hitchhikers.

  2. Yanni's skin was ghostly pale.

  3. Vladimir lowered the sheet to see a dark ghostly face staring him in the eye.

  4. At the ruined altar ghostly priests officiated, passing quietly from side to side, with bows and genuflections.

  5. She looked ghostly.

Переводы

языков: 6
Русский
По значениям 1
pertaining to ghosts:

Происхождение

From Middle English gostly, gastlich, from Old English gāstlīċ (“spiritual, holy, clerical

From Middle English gostly, gastlich, from Old English gāstlīċ (“spiritual, holy, clerical (not lay), ghastly, ghostly, spectral”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaistalīk (“spiritual”), equivalent to ghost + -ly. Cognate with Scots ghaistly, gaistly (“spiritual, ghastly, terrifying”), West Frisian geastlik (“spiritual, clerical, religious”), Dutch geestelijk (“spiritual, clerical, ecclesiastical”), German geistlich (“spiritual, sacred, religious”), Danish geistlig (“ecclesiastical, clerical”).

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Формы

ghostlier, ghostliest
Сравнительная степеньghostlier Урок
Превосходная степеньghostliest Урок

правильный

Синонимы

синонимов: 49

Однокоренные

связанных слов: 9

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