ghostly

C1 大学 FREQ #17622 ★☆☆☆☆

a. 幽灵的, 影子似的, 精神的

发音

US /ˈɡoʊstli/
US

词形变化

ghostlier 比较级 ghostlier ghostliest ghostliest 最高级

教材释义与例句

形容词

幽灵的；可怕的；影子似的

释义与例句

adj. C1
  1. 1.

    Of or pertaining to ghosts or spirits.

    a ghostly figure with a hood

    The graveyard was haunted by a ghostly figure of a young girl.

    The ghostly moaning was heard from upstairs.

  2. 2.

    Spooky; frightening.

    A ghostly hush fell.

  3. 3.

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

    古体

    a ghostly confessor

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 5

spiritual spectral apparitional ghostlike phantasmal

近义相关 1

supernatural

相关短语

ghostly father 听取忏悔的神父 ghostly fathers

词源

From Middle English gostly, gastlich, from Old English gāstlīċ (“spiritual, holy, clerical (not lay), ghastly, ghostly, spectral”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaistalīk (“spiritual”), equivalent to ghost + -ly. Cognate with Scots ghaistly, gaistly (“spiritual, ghastly, terrifying”), West Frisian geastlik (“spiritual, clerical, religious”), Dutch geestelijk (“spiritual, clerical, ecclesiastical”), German geistlich (“spiritual, sacred, religious”), Danish geistlig (“ecclesiastical, clerical”).

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