Definitions for ghostly

ghostly ghost·ly

Spelling: [gohst-lee]
IPA: /ˈgoʊst li/

Ghostly is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 121 anagrams from letters in ghostly (ghlosty).

Definitions for ghostly

adjective

  1. of, characteristic of, or resembling a ghost; phantasmal; spectral.
  2. Literary. spiritual.

Origin of ghostly

before 900; Middle English; Old English gāstlīc. See ghost, -ly

Examples for ghostly

Thrice he breaks water, a white and ghostly apparition from the deep.

Meanwhile, Only Lovers Left Alive uses the city as a character as undead and ghostly as its human leads.

I tried to follow my ghostly father's direction, but how hard it was to do so!

There could be no doubt now of the ghostly smile that played upon his face.

I suppose you would go away and leave me alone in this ghostly light.'

ghostly and dark the room became, and full of lowering shadows.

The Dakota, a co-op residence on the Upper West Side, is historically known for its ghostly figures.

To explain this ghostly occurrence, we get a dollop of gossip concerning the recent death of a hated bishop.

A storage building became a ghostly concrete frame lit bright orange.

One month after the operation, Holm arrived in a ghostly Stanleyville posing as a State Department representative.

Word Value for ghostly
Scrable

14

Words with friends

14

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