ghostly

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

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”).

PronunciationEdit

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡoʊstli/

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AdjectiveEdit

ghostly (comparative ghostlier, superlative ghostliest)

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.

   the ghostly moaning was heard from upstairs.

2. Spooky; frightening.
3. Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual.

   a ghostly confessor

   • Book of Common Prayer

     Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies.

   • Jeremy Taylor

     One of the ghostly children of St. Jerome.

SynonymsEdit

• See also Wikisaurus:ghostly

TranslationsEdit

pertaining to ghosts

• Bengali: ভৌতিক (bhoutik)
• Bulgarian: призрачен (bg) (prizračen)
• Estonian: tontlik
• Finnish: aavemainen (fi)
• French: fantomatique (fr)
• Greek: πνευματικός (el) m (pnevmatikós), άυλος (el) m (áylos)
• Hungarian: kísérteties (hu)
• Irish: taibhsiúil

• Italian: spettrale, fantasmatico, spiritico
• Korean: 유령의 (yuryeong-ui)
• Polish: widmowy, zmorowaty
• Portuguese: fantasmagórico
• Russian: при́зрачный (ru) (prízračnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: taibhseil
• Spanish: fantasmal

spooky, frightening

• Bulgarian: плашещ (bg) (plašešt), призрачен (bg) (prizračen)
• Greek: στοιχειωμένος (el) m (stoicheioménos)
• Irish: taibhsiúil

• Portuguese: fantasmagórico
• Scottish Gaelic: taibhseil

See alsoEdit

• ghastly