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Definition of Ghostlike
1. Adjective. Resembling or characteristic of a phantom. "Spiritual tappings at a seance"
Similar to: Supernatural
Derivative terms: Ghost, Ghostliness, Phantasma, Phantasma, Spirit
Definition of Ghostlike
1. a. Like a ghost; ghastly.
Definition of Ghostlike
1. Adjective. Seemingly invisible; as a ghost, similar to a ghost. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ghostlike
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ghostlike
Literary usage of Ghostlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gospel in All Lands by Missionary Society, Methodist Episcopal Church (1886)
"The ghostlike medicine-man, the universal demi-god of savage nations, -with his
hideous miscellany of dead lizards, hide, nails of the dead, lion's claws, ..."
2. Dictionary of Scientific Illustrations and Symbols: Moral Truths Mirrored in (1894)
"... ghostlike forms so often seen among those not freely exposed to air and light.
The absence of these essential elements of health deteriorates by ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Pertaining or relating to apparitions; of ghostlike character; spectral;
supernatural: as, ghostly sounds ; a ghostly visitant. I have no sorcerer's malison ..."
4. The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East, with Historical Surveys by Charles F Horne (1917)
"His boys, while playing, setting that decrepit, ghostlike man at naught, pelted
him with ... They said, " Yonder lies a man, decrepit and ghostlike: him ..."
5. The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East: With Historical Surveys by Charles Francis Horne (1917)
"... be called together, and said — He said, " Which of you has seen anything here
this day ? " They said, " Yonder lies a man, decrepit and ghostlike: him ..."
6. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1903)
"with its tapestries, its stately beds still decked with green and white velvet
and satin, be a reality, what then was the ghostlike, evanescent procession ..."
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