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# ghostly

adjective (ghostly, ghostlier, ghostliest)

«ghostly» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Like a ghost or to do with ghosts: pale, faint, strange and scary. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/ghostly/#m1)
2. Faint and hard to see or hear, as if not quite real: a ghostly shape in the fog. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/ghostly/#m2)
3. Ghostly can also mean spiritual, to do with the soul, saints or religion. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/ghostly/#m3)

### In the lessons

In stories, especially spooky ones and at Halloween, «ghostly» builds a creepy mood: ghostly figures, ghostly voices, ghostly white. In descriptive writing lessons it is a good word for mist, moonlight and echoes. Phrases: a ghostly figure, a ghostly whisper, ghostly pale.

### Examples

- A ghostly figure drifted across the old hall. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/ghostly/#x1)
- We heard a ghostly moan from the attic, but it was just the wind. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/ghostly/#x2)
- The moon gave the garden a ghostly glow. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/ghostly/#x3)
- Her face looked ghostly pale after the fright. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/ghostly/#x4)
- Ghostly shapes of ships appeared out of the fog. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/ghostly/#x5)
- The tale was full of ghostly whispers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/ghostly/#x6)
- Using «ghostly» made my Halloween story spookier. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/ghostly/#x7)
- To these "legends," as the folk-tales are styled in which the saints or their ghostly enemies occur, belongs the following narrative of-- [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/ghostly/#x8)

### Note

It looks like an adverb (-ly) but it is an adjective: «a ghostly sound», not «he walked ghostly». Spelling: gh at the start, silent h. Ghosts are a part of stories and beliefs; science has never shown that they exist.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «ghostly» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/ghostly/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«ghostly» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/ghostly.html) on Mova free.