ghostly

形容词 adj.
中文释义
美 /ˈɡoʊstli/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Of or pertaining to ghosts or spirits.
    — a ghostly figure with a hood
  2. Spooky; frightening.
    — A ghostly hush fell.
  3. Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual. archaic
    — a ghostly confessor

词形变化

ghostlier comparative ghostliest superlative

词汇关系

近义词
apparitional ghastly ghostish ghostlike ghostly phantomic phantomlike phantasmal phantasmic spectral spooky wraithlike wraithy
衍生词
ghostlily ghostliness ghostly father nonghostly unghostly
相关词
ghastly demonic demonical fiendish

词源

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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