'Ghostly' definitions:
Definition of 'ghostly'
From: WordNet
adjective
Resembling or characteristic of a phantom; "a ghostly face at the window"; "a phantasmal presence in the room"; "spectral emanations"; "spiritual tappings at a seance" [syn: apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual]
Definition of 'Ghostly'
From: GCIDE
- Ghostly \Ghost"ly\, a. [OE. gastlich, gostlich, AS. g[=a]stlic. See Ghost.]
- 1. Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual; as, a ghostly confessor. [1913 Webster]
- Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies. --Book of Common Prayer [Ch. of Eng. ] [1913 Webster]
- One of the gostly children of St. Jerome. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Of or pertaining to apparitions. --Akenside. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Ghostly'
From: GCIDE
- Ghostly \Ghost"ly\, adv. Spiritually; mystically. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'ghostly'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- airy,
- asomatous,
- astral,
- blue,
- bodiless,
- cadaverous,
- corpselike,
- creepy,
- deadly,
- deathlike,
- deathly,
- deathly pale,
- decarnate,
- decarnated,
- discarnate,
- disembodied,
- ectoplasmic,
- eerie,
- ethereal,
- etheric,
- extramundane,
- ghastly,
- ghostish,
- ghostlike,
- ghosty,
- grisly,
- gruesome,
- haggard,
- immaterial,
- impalpable,
- imponderable,
- incorporate,
- incorporeal,
- insubstantial,
- intangible,
- livid,
- lurid,
- macabre,
- mortuary,
- nonmaterial,
- nonphysical,
- occult,
- otherworldly,
- pale,
- phantasmal,
- phantasmic,
- phantom,
- phantomic,
- phantomlike,
- preternatural,
- psychic,
- scary,
- shadowy,
- sinister,
- specterlike,
- spectral,
- spiritual,
- spooky,
- strange,
- supernatural,
- transmundane,
- uncanny,
- unearthly,
- unembodied,
- unextended,
- unfleshly,
- unnatural,
- unphysical,
- unreal,
- unsubstantial,
- unworldly,
- wan,
- weird,
- wraithlike,
- wraithy