ghostly Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite resembling or characteristic of a phantom
    spectral; spiritual; ghostlike; phantasmal; apparitional.
    • a ghostly face at the window
    • a phantasmal presence in the room
    • spectral emanations
    • spiritual tappings at a seance

WordNet

Ghost"ly adjective
Etymology
OE. gastlich, gostlich, AS. gastlic. See Ghost.
Definitions
  1. Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual; as, a ghostly confessor.
    Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies. Book of Common Prayer [Ch. of Eng. ]
    One of the gostly children of St. Jerome. Jer. Taylor.
  2. Of or pertaining to apparitions. Akenside.
Ghost"ly adverb
Definitions
  1. Spiritually; mystically. Chaucer.

Webster 1913