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Ghostly

//ˈɡoʊstli// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to ghosts or spirits.

    "a ghostly figure with a hood"

  2. 2
    Spooky; frightening.

    "A ghostly hush fell."

  3. 3
    Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual. archaic

    "a ghostly confessor"

Adjective
  1. 1
    resembling or characteristic of a phantom wordnet

Etymology

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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