ghostly

English

Etymology

From Middle English gostly, gastlich, from Old English gāstlīċ (“spiritual, holy, clerical (not lay), ghastly, ghostly, spectral”), equivalent to ghost +‎ -ly. Cognate with Scots gostly, gastly, gaistlie (“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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Adjective

ghostly (comparative ghostlier, superlative ghostliest)

1. Of or pertaining to ghosts or spirituality.
2. Spooky; frightening.

Synonyms

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Translations

pertaining to ghosts

• Bengali: ভৌতিক (bn) (bhoutik)
• Finnish: aavemainen (fi)
• French: fantomatique (fr)
• Greek: πνευματικός (el) (pnevmatikós) m , άυλος (el) (áylos) m 

• Hungarian: kísérteties (hu)
• Italian: spettrale (it), fantasmatico (it), spiritico (it)
• Russian: при́зрачный (ru) (prízračnyj) 
• Spanish: fantasmal (es)

spooky, frightening

• Greek: στοιχειωμένος (el) (stoicheioménos) m 

See also

• ghastly