Synonyms for ghostly
- adjective
Most common
scary eerie gruesome ghastly spectral phantasmal supernatural shadowy
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
2. Spectral
Other
spooky informal, shadowy, supernatural, unreal, phantomlike, ghostish, phantomic, phantasmic, wraithlike, wraithy
Definitions
- adj. 1
Spooky; frightening.
- adj. 2
Of or pertaining to ghosts or spirits.
a ghostly figure with a hood
Related words
- Word family
- ghostliness
Example sentences
- scary Was it scary for you to live in the United States?
- eerie The eerie silence struck terror into their hearts.
- gruesome I saved him from a gruesome and humiliating death.
- ghastly The idea of some ghastly presence constantly haunted him.
- spectral They all agreed that it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral.
By length
- 5 letters
- scary2, eerie2, aerie2
- 6 letters
- unreal2, spooky2, grisly2
- 7 letters
- shadowy3, ghastly2, wraithy
- 8 letters
- spectral2, gruesome2, ghostish
- 9 letters
- spiritual4, ghostlike2, phantomic
- 10 letters
- phantasmal, phantasmic, wraithlike
- 11 letters
- phantomlike
- 12 letters
- supernatural5, apparitional
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (scary2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- fantomatique
- Italiano
- fantomatico