ghostly

ghostly
    adj 1: 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}]
    

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.
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            Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies. --Book
                                                  of Common
                                                  Prayer [Ch. of
                                                  Eng. ]
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            One of the gostly children of St. Jerome. --Jer.
                                                  Taylor.
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   2. Of or pertaining to apparitions. --Akenside.
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Ghostly \Ghost"ly\, adv.
   Spiritually; mystically. --Chaucer.
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75 Moby Thesaurus words for "ghostly":
      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