as in spectral
of or relating to a ghost
A ghostly figure appears in the house at night.
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Recent Examples of ghostly
The Devil Wears Prada star is channeling a ghostly statue of liberty as Boo York City, a frightening take on the city that never sleeps.
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Ew Staff, EW.com, 27 Oct. 2024
On the screen, the app will show a digital representation of the keys and the ghostly outline of your hands wiggling above them.
—Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 8 Oct. 2024
If someone wandered briefly into the shot, the resulting picture would contain their ghostly trace superimposed over substantial furniture, buildings or people who had held still for the full exposure.
—Andrea Kaston Tange, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2024
Ever since the French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce produced, in the mid-eighteen-twenties, what is now the world’s oldest surviving photograph—a lonely, ghostly image of a rooftop taken from a window—the medium has inspired a bounty of beauty and melancholy.
—Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2024
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Ew Staff, EW.com, 27 Oct. 2024
On the screen, the app will show a digital representation of the keys and the ghostly outline of your hands wiggling above them.
—Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 8 Oct. 2024
If someone wandered briefly into the shot, the resulting picture would contain their ghostly trace superimposed over substantial furniture, buildings or people who had held still for the full exposure.
—Andrea Kaston Tange, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2024
Ever since the French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce produced, in the mid-eighteen-twenties, what is now the world’s oldest surviving photograph—a lonely, ghostly image of a rooftop taken from a window—the medium has inspired a bounty of beauty and melancholy.
—Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2024
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“Ghostly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ghostly. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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