ghostly

Nghĩa (Tiếng Anh)

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

Tính thường xuyên

C2
Phát âm là (IPA)
/ˈɡoʊstli/
Từ nguyên (Tiếng Anh)

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”).

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