ghostly

adjectiveB1

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adjective
Comparative
ghostlier
Superlative
ghostliest
  1. 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. 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. 3.

    (archaic)Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual.

    a ghostly confessor

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Đồng nghĩa

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Cùng gốc / liên quan

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Nguồn gốc từ

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.

Nguồn dữ liệu: freedict, wiktionary · cập nhật 14/8/2026

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