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Synonyms for ghostly
ˈgoʊst lighost·ly

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  1. apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, spiritualadjective

    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"

    Synonyms:
    religious, spiritual, spectral, apparitional, unearthly, phantasmal, ghostlike

    Antonyms:
    natural

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. ghostlyadjective

    Synonyms:
    spiritual, of the soul

  2. ghostlyadjective

    Synonyms:
    spectral, phantom-like

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  1. ghostlyadjective

    Synonyms:
    spiritual, spectral, phantomlike

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#2235religious
#3706spiritual
#10893spectral
#34948ghostly
#79310unearthly
#280933phantasmal
#301114ghostlike

How to use ghostly in a sentence?

  1. Sam Hodder:

    This is a property where you can almost tangibly feel that it is healing, that it is recovering, you walk through the forest and, even as you see the kind of ghostly stumps of ancient trees that were harvested, you could also in the foggy landscape see the monsters that were left behind as well as the young redwoods that are sprouting from those stumps.

  2. Albert Einstein:

    Most people go on living their everyday life half frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragi-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.

  3. Philip Goode:

    You look at a quarter moon. You can see the whole moon because three quarters of it is illuminated in this ghostly light.

  4. Caroline Edwards:

    He was ghostly pale, which I figured at that point that he had been sprayed, and I was concerned, my cop alarm bells went off because if you get sprayed with pepper spray, you're going to turn red. He turned just about as pale as this sheet of paper.


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