ghostly

Signification (Anglais)

1. Of or pertaining to ghosts or spirits.
2. Spooky; frightening.
3. (archaic) Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual.

Concepts

fantomatique

spectral

de fantôme

Synonymes

spectral

spiritual

ghostlike

apparitional

eerie

phantasmal

spooky

uncanny

weird

pale

wraithlike

supernatural

unearthly

pneumatic

sallow

shadowy

divine

deathlike

spiritually

phantomlike

ungodly

unreal

visionary

wan

whitish

visional

eery

ghastly

fade

dreamlike

illusory

pallid

ghosty

phantom

Traductions

spettrale

fantasmal

geisterhaft

spukhaft

fantasmagórico

espectral

πνευματικός

fantasmatico

άυλος

spiritico

φαντασματικός

gespentisch

ως φάντασμα

στοιχειωμένος

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈɡoʊstli/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: gostly

Hérité de ancien anglais: gāstlīċ

Appartenant à écossais: ghaistly

Appartenant à frison occidental: geastlik

Appartenant à néerlandais: geestelijk

Appartenant à allemand: geistlich

Appartenant à danois: geistlig

In summary

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”).