英语词汇“ghostly”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

adj

Something ghostly looks or sounds like a ghost — strange and chilling. A ghostly figure appearing out of the fog can seem slightly unearthly.

Distant, ghostly music sometimes echoes through an empty subway station, and ghostly voices can often be heard in stairwells or hallways, seeming to come from nowhere. Even your neighbor's glowing TV screen can appear ghostly on a dark night. The Old English root of ghostly is gastlic, which means "spiritual, holy, or not of the flesh," and also "supernatural."

WORD FAMILY

ghostly: ghostlier, ghostliest, ghostlily, ghostliness+/ghost: ghosted, ghosting, ghostlike, ghostly, ghosts

USAGE EXAMPLES

Lou Reed’s detached, almost funereal litany of Factory drag queens in “Walk on the Wild Side,” its chorus fading into Bowie’s ghostly saxophone solo.

Los Angeles Times(Dec 08, 2016)

By Monday, that same area felt ghostly, almost entirely unpeopled.

Washington Post(Nov 28, 2016)

A long, mostly empty cooler runs along one wall, a ghostly reminder of the supermarket that once occupied the address.

Washington Post(Nov 17, 2016)

adj resembling or characteristic of a phantom

a ghostly face at the window

Syn

apparitional, ghostlike, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual
supernatural

not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material

单词	ghostly
释义	ghostly (once / 1089 pages) adj Something ghostly looks or sounds like a ghost — strange and chilling. A ghostly figure appearing out of the fog can seem slightly unearthly. Distant, ghostly music sometimes echoes through an empty subway station, and ghostly voices can often be heard in stairwells or hallways, seeming to come from nowhere. Even your neighbor's glowing TV screen can appear ghostly on a dark night. The Old English root of ghostly is gastlic, which means "spiritual, holy, or not of the flesh," and also "supernatural." WORD FAMILY ghostly: ghostlier, ghostliest, ghostlily, ghostliness+/ghost: ghosted, ghosting, ghostlike, ghostly, ghosts USAGE EXAMPLES Lou Reed’s detached, almost funereal litany of Factory drag queens in “Walk on the Wild Side,” its chorus fading into Bowie’s ghostly saxophone solo. Los Angeles Times(Dec 08, 2016) By Monday, that same area felt ghostly, almost entirely unpeopled. Washington Post(Nov 28, 2016) A long, mostly empty cooler runs along one wall, a ghostly reminder of the supermarket that once occupied the address. Washington Post(Nov 17, 2016) adj resembling or characteristic of a phantom a ghostly face at the window Syn apparitional, ghostlike, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual supernatural not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material
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