ghostly

形容词 adj.
/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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