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Ghostlike

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Adjective

1. apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual

resembling or characteristic of a phantom

Example Sentences:
'a ghostly face at the window'
'a phantasmal presence in the room'
'spectral emanations'
'spiritual tappings at a seance'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Ghostlike

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noun
1. 
the disembodied spirit of a dead person, supposed to haunt the living as a pale or shadowy vision; phantom
▶ Related adjective: spectral
2. 
a haunting memory
the ghost of his former life rose up before him
3. 
a faint trace or possibility of something; glimmer
a ghost of a smile
4. 
the spirit; soul (archaic, except in the phrase the Holy Ghost)
5. physics
a. 
a faint secondary image produced by an optical system
b. 
a similar image on a television screen, formed by reflection of the transmitting waves or by a defect in the receiver
6.  ghost word
7. Also called: ghost edition
an entry recorded in a bibliography of which no actual proof exists
8. 
another name for ghostwriter
9. (modifier)
falsely recorded as doing a particular job or fulfilling a particular function in order that some benefit, esp money, may be obtained
a ghost worker
10.  give up the ghost
verb
11.  another word for ghostwrite
12. (transitive)
to haunt
13. (intransitive)
to move effortlessly and smoothly, esp unnoticed
he ghosted into the penalty area
14. (transitive) informal
to end a romantic relationship with (a person) by not responding to his or her attempts to communicate

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Ghostlike

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noun
1. 
the spirit or soul: now only in give up the ghost (to die) and in Holy Ghost
2.  Folklore
a dead person's disembodied spirit, esp. when thought of as appearing to the living as a pale, shadowy apparition
3. 
a haunting memory
4. 
a. 
a faint, shadowy semblance; inkling
b. 
a slight trace
not a ghost of a chance
5.  US, Informal
ghostwriter
6.  Optics and Television
an unwanted secondary image
verb intransitive
7.  US
to work as a ghostwriter
verb transitive
8. 
to haunt
9.  US
to be the ghostwriter of

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

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