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comparative ghostlier, superlative ghostliest
Of or pertaining to ghosts or spirits. examples
Spooky; frightening. quotations examples
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.
1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 35
His lips were chapped and lined with a ghostly purple fringe.
2019, Dave Eggers, The Parade, N.Y.: Vintage Books, page 134
(archaic) Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual. quotations
Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies.
1549 March 7, Thomas Cranmer [et al.], compilers, The Booke of the Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacramentes, […], London: […] Edowardi Whitchurche […]
one of the ghostly children of St. Jerome
1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […]