: of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a ghost: spectral
ghostlinessnoun
ghostlyadverb
Examples of ghostly in a Sentence
A ghostly figure appears in the house at night.
Recent Examples on the WebLee stars in the film as a rocker who is resurrected by a mystical crow, and then gets his ghostly revenge on the gang who murdered him and his fiancée a year earlier.—EW.com, 31 May 2024 The new image of the glowing red structure resembling a ghostly hand is CG 4 – one of many cometary globules present within the Milky Way.—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 9 May 2024 The ghostly protagonists, Edwin (George Rexstrew) and Charles (Jayden Revri), are both teenagers bullied to death at the same British boarding school seven decades apart.—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Apr. 2024 Childhood friends and physicists Abby (Melissa McCarthy) and Erin (Kristen Wiig) team with Egon-esque engineer Holtzmann (Kate McKinnon) and subway worker Patty (Leslie Jones) to prevent a ghostly apocalypse in the Big Apple.—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for ghostly
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Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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The first known use of ghostly was
before the 12th century
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