C1adjective · rare

ghostly

ghostly · ghostlier · ghostliest

жахливий, страшний, грізний

призрачный

furchtbar, schrecklich, miserabel

Of or pertaining to ghosts or spiritsOf or pertaining to ghosts or spirits.

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US/ˈɡoʊstli/

» Tobias doesn't believe in ghostly hitchhikers.

Meaning

3 senses

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
Spooky; frightening.
A ghostly hush fell.
(archaic)Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual.
a ghostly confessor

More definitions

resembling or characteristic of a phantom

Examples

5 sentences

Tobias doesn't believe in ghostly hitchhikers.
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Yanni's skin was ghostly pale.
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Vladimir lowered the sheet to see a dark ghostly face staring him in the eye.
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At the ruined altar ghostly priests officiated, passing quietly from side to side, with bows and genuflections.
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She looked ghostly.
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Translations

6 languages

Русский

By meaning 1

pertaining to ghosts:

Origin

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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