looking or sounding like a ghost; full of ghosts:
a ghostly figure * ghostly footsteps * the ghostly churchyard * The airfield was bathed in the ghostly glow of a searchlight.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is ghostly a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, ghostly is tagged as adjective.
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