ghostly

About 1.36 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Of or pertaining to ghosts or spirits.

   a ghostly figure with a hood

2. adjective Spooky; frightening.

   A ghostly hush fell.

3. adjective Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual.

   a ghostly confessor

Similar words

spectral ghostlike phantasmal spiritual apparitional supernatural eerie phantom wraithlike spookish

Often followed by

and white presence figure in father light figures voice

Word family

ghostlier ghostliest ghostliness ghostlinesses