See ghostly on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English gostly, gastlich, from Old English gāstlīċ (“spiritual, holy, clerical (not lay), ghastly, ghostly, spectral”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaistalīk (“spiritual”), equivalent to ghost + -ly. Cognate with Scots ghaistly, gaistly (“spiritual, ghastly, terrifying”), West Frisian geastlik (“spiritual, clerical, religious”), Dutch geestelijk (“spiritual, clerical, ecclesiastical”), German geistlich (“spiritual, sacred, religious”), Danish geistlig (“ecclesiastical, clerical”).",
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"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "ghostliest",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
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}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
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{
"word": "ghastly"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:ghostly",
"word": "demonic"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:ghostly",
"word": "demonical"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:ghostly",
"word": "fiendish"
}
],
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"categories": [
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],
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"text": "a ghostly figure with a hood",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "The graveyard was haunted by a ghostly figure of a young girl.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "The ghostly moaning was heard from upstairs.",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"Of or pertaining to ghosts or spirits."
],
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"ghost",
"ghost"
],
[
"spirit",
"spirit"
]
],
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"word": "ghostly"
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{
"text": "A ghostly hush fell.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 35:",
"text": "Scores of coconut-shell fires blazed with their characteristic glaring white flame, throwing grotesque shadows on the brown thatched huts, dancing in fairylike shimmerings among the domes of coconut fronds, casting ghostly reaches of light through the adjacent graveyards, and silhouetting the forms of pareu-clad natives at work cleaning their fish or laying them on the live coals to broil.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2019, Dave Eggers, The Parade, N.Y.: Vintage Books, page 134:",
"text": "His lips were chapped and lined with a ghostly purple fringe.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Spooky; frightening."
],
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[
"Spooky",
"spooky"
],
[
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"frightening"
]
],
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{
"word": "frightening"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with archaic senses",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "a ghostly confessor"
},
{
"ref": "1549 March 7, Thomas Cranmer [et al.], compilers, The Booke of the Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacramentes, […], London: […] Edowardi Whitchurche […], →OCLC:",
"text": "Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:",
"text": "one of the ghostly children of St. Jerome",
"type": "quote"
}
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"Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual."
],
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"carnal",
"carnal"
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[
"secular",
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"(archaic) Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual."
],
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]
}
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"General-American"
]
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"source": "Thesaurus:ghostly",
"word": "ghastly"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:ghostly",
"word": "ghostish"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:ghostly",
"word": "ghostlike"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:ghostly",
"word": "ghostly"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:ghostly",
"word": "phantomic"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:ghostly",
"word": "phantomlike"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:ghostly",
"word": "phantasmal"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:ghostly",
"word": "phantasmic"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:ghostly",
"word": "spectral"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:ghostly",
"word": "spooky"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:ghostly",
"word": "wraithlike"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:ghostly",
"word": "wraithy"
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],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "bhōutik",
"sense": "pertaining to ghosts",
"word": "ভৌতিক"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "prizračen",
"sense": "pertaining to ghosts",
"word": "призрачен"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "pertaining to ghosts",
"word": "fantasmal"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "pertaining to ghosts",
"word": "fantoma"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "pertaining to ghosts",
"word": "tontlik"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "pertaining to ghosts",
"word": "aavemainen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "pertaining to ghosts",
"word": "fantomatique"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ačrdilisebri",
"sense": "pertaining to ghosts",
"word": "აჩრდილისებრი"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "landisebri",
"sense": "pertaining to ghosts",
"word": "ლანდისებრი"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "sulieri",
"sense": "pertaining to ghosts",
"word": "სულიერი"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "pnevmatikós",
"sense": "pertaining to ghosts",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "πνευματικός"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "áylos",
"sense": "pertaining to ghosts",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "άυλος"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "bhuthā",
"sense": "pertaining to ghosts",
"word": "भुतहा"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "pertaining to ghosts",
"word": "kísérteties"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "pertaining to ghosts",
"word": "draugalegur"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "pertaining to ghosts",
"word": "taibhsiúil"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "pertaining to ghosts",
"word": "spettrale"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "pertaining to ghosts",
"word": "fantasmatico"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "pertaining to ghosts",
"word": "spiritico"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "yuryeong'ui",
"sense": "pertaining to ghosts",
"word": "유령의"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "pertaining to ghosts",
"word": "gostly"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "pertaining to ghosts",
"word": "widmowy"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "pertaining to ghosts",
"word": "zmorowaty"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "pertaining to ghosts",
"word": "fantasmagórico"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prízračnyj",
"sense": "pertaining to ghosts",
"word": "при́зрачный"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "pertaining to ghosts",
"word": "taibhseil"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "pertaining to ghosts",
"word": "fantasmal"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "plašešt",
"sense": "spooky, frightening",
"word": "плашещ"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "prizračen",
"sense": "spooky, frightening",
"word": "призрачен"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "stoicheioménos",
"sense": "spooky, frightening",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "στοιχειωμένος"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "bhuthā",
"sense": "spooky, frightening",
"word": "भुतहा"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "spooky, frightening",
"word": "taibhsiúil"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "spooky, frightening",
"word": "fantasmagórico"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "spooky, frightening",
"word": "taibhseil"
}
],
"word": "ghostly"
}
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