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ghostlike, a. and adv.|ˈgəʊstlaɪk|
[f. ghost n. + -like.]
A. adj. Resembling a ghost or its qualities; like a place haunted by ghosts.
1611Cotgr., Havé,..also, dreadfull, wild-looking, ghastlie, ghost-like. 1637Nabbes Hannibal & Scipio, Their Ghost to Auth. A 3 Thy thinne cheeke, hollow eye, And ghostlike colour. 1639Fuller Holy War ii. ix. (1647) 56 The ghost-like ghastliness of their famished faces. 1835Willis Melanie 291 Her majestic trees stand ghostlike in the Cæsars' home. 1877A. B. Edwards Up Nile xiii. 382 The four colossi came out, ghostlike, vague, and shadowy, in the enchanted moonlight. 1884Queen Victoria More Leaves 80 It looks very ghostlike, and reminds me a little of Holyrood Chapel.
B. adv. In the manner of a ghost.
1859Tennyson Guinevere 600 Himself became as mist Before her, moving ghostlike to his doom. 1873M. E. Braddon L. Davoren Prol. ii, The brief days flit by ghostlike. |