ghostly
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Tính từ
adjective- 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.
A ghostly hush fell.
Đồng nghĩa: affreux, alarming, spine-tingling, appalling, awful, eldritch, buggish, butt-clenching, buttock-clenching, dismayful, dreadful, fearful, flaysome, flesh-crawling, formidable, freaky, frightening, frightensome, frightful, ghastly, ghostly, grisly, hair-curling, hair-raising, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, horripilating, pulse-pounding, scaring, scary, shocking, skin-crawling, terrible, terrifying, terrorsome
- 3.
(archaic)Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual.
a ghostly confessor
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From Middle English gostly, gastlich, from Old English gāstlīċ, from *gaistalīk (spiritual), equivalent to ghost + -ly. Cognate with ghaistly, gaistly (spiritual, ghastly, terrifying), geastlik, geestelijk, geistlich, geistlig.