Ghostly is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GHOSTLY in dictionary:

VERB:
• Spiritually; mystically.
ADJECTIVE:
• relating to the soul; spiritual; as, a ghostly confessor
• of or like a ghost in appearance or sound; eerie and unnatural
• frightening in appearance or effect
• Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual; as, a ghostly confessor.
• Of or pertaining to apparitions.
• resembling or characteristic of a phantom
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• spectral

Words related to GHOSTLY

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Words that contain GHOSTLY

unghostly16

How to use GHOSTLY in a sentence

• The ghostly faces turned from the light, and the tread of their retreating feet marked the passage through the blackness.
• Our lanterns cut it for a foot or two in a ghostly way, throwing a pale white light back upon our faces and the weeds and bits of wreck under our feet.
• Eastward, the bank mounted abruptly to a bare fire-swept table-land, whereon a few dead trees stood, parched and ghostly skeletons draped with rags of moss.
• Tadman had heard that night was only the ghostly sound of some cry wrung from a bleeding heart in days gone by, the echo of an anguish that had been in the far past.
• In the trance of that night, lying cold upon the ground, he beheld his ghostly visitors.
• Besides, she had been greatly stirred by his reference to her request for ghostly counsel, which had resulted in so frightful a failure and mortification.
• It placed one ghostly hand above his forehead, and with the other pointed to the open letter.
• Everything it touched took a ghostly and unreal look.
• At nightfall the scene was ghostly and imagination easily peopled the dark galleries with strange images.
• Out of the shadow of the building, near one of the angles, walked the ghostly form which Merriwell had beheld.
• It seemed to come from the air, and it made him think of the apparition and the ghostly footsteps.
• It appeared no longer a ghostly pile, but glowing amber in the sunlight, for a cloud shadow had passed.
• They rolled down the chasm, volume upon volume, until in the ghostly gloom between the mountain walls he stood and listened, a nervous shiver catching him once or twice.
• He walked out into it, and a dozen yards away he became a ghostly, almost invisible shadow.
• Through the pane they make a faint and ghostly glimmer on the empty bed.
• At that end spread a ghostly film of open land, forest and sky.
• It must be confessed that under this ghostly administration the paper improved.
• Its light struck a ghostly white beam across my cabin, and made an ominous shape on the planking by my bunk.
• What light there was seemed unreal, and the closed rooms when they peeped in were cheerless and ghostly.
• The sky signs had gone, the murky darkness blotted out the whole scene, against which the curving arc of lights shone with a fitful, ghostly light.

Similar words containing GHOST without suffix ly

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