ghostly

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• General-American: /ˈɡoʊstli/
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• rhymes with (General American) -oʊstli
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• CMU ARPABET: G OW1 S T L IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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”).

36 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bengali: ভৌতিক (bhōutik) — pertaining to ghosts
• Bulgarian: призрачен (prizračen) — pertaining to ghosts
• Catalan: fantasmal — pertaining to ghosts
• Esperanto: fantoma — pertaining to ghosts
• Estonian: tontlik — pertaining to ghosts
• Finnish: aavemainen — pertaining to ghosts
• French: fantomatique — pertaining to ghosts
• Georgian: აჩრდილისებრი (ačrdilisebri) — pertaining to ghosts
• Georgian: ლანდისებრი (landisebri) — pertaining to ghosts
• Georgian: სულიერი (sulieri) — pertaining to ghosts
• Greek: πνευματικός (pnevmatikós) — pertaining to ghosts
• Greek: άυλος (áylos) — pertaining to ghosts
• Hindi: भुतहा (bhuthā) — pertaining to ghosts
• Hungarian: kísérteties — pertaining to ghosts
• Icelandic: draugalegur — pertaining to ghosts
• Irish: taibhsiúil — pertaining to ghosts
• Italian: spettrale — pertaining to ghosts
• Italian: fantasmatico — pertaining to ghosts
• Italian: spiritico — pertaining to ghosts
• Korean: 유령의 (yuryeong'ui) — pertaining to ghosts
• Latin: spectralis — pertaining to ghosts
• Latin: phantasmalis — pertaining to ghosts
• Middle English: gostly — pertaining to ghosts
• Polish: widmowy — pertaining to ghosts
• Polish: zmorowaty — pertaining to ghosts
• Portuguese: fantasmagórico — pertaining to ghosts
• Russian: при́зрачный (prízračnyj) — pertaining to ghosts
• Scottish Gaelic: taibhseil — pertaining to ghosts
• Spanish: fantasmal — pertaining to ghosts
• Bulgarian: плашещ (plašešt) — spooky, frightening
• Bulgarian: призрачен (prizračen) — spooky, frightening
• Greek: στοιχειωμένος (stoicheioménos) — spooky, frightening
• Hindi: भुतहा (bhuthā) — spooky, frightening
• Irish: taibhsiúil — spooky, frightening
• Portuguese: fantasmagórico — spooky, frightening
• Scottish Gaelic: taibhseil — spooky, frightening