ghostly
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- resembling or characteristic of a phantom
- "a ghostly face at the window"
Adj
- Of or pertaining to ghosts or spirits.
- Spooky; frightening.
- Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual.
Origin / Etymology
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”).
Synonyms
affreux, alarming, appalling, apparitional, awful, buggish, butt-clenching, buttock-clenching, dismayful, dreadful, fearful, flaysome, flesh-crawling, formidable, freaky, frightening, frightensome, frightful, ghastly, ghostish, ghostlike, ghostly, grisly, hair-curling, hair-raising, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, horripilating, phantasmal, phantasmic, phantomic, phantomlike, pulse-pounding, scaring, scary, shocking, skin-crawling, spectral, spiritual, spooky, terrible, terrifying, terrorsome, wraithlike, wraithy
Scrabble Score: 14
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