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ghostish

ghostish adjective: ghostly; spectral.

Adjective

ghostish (comparative more ghostish, superlative most ghostish)

  1. ghostly; spectral
    • It's rather ghostish to have the road suddenly smudged out, and all the world anywhere, nowhere for you to go.1911, D. H. Lawrence, The White Peacock

Forms of ghostish

comparativemore ghostish
superlativemost ghostish

Origin of ghostish

From ghost + -ish.

Questions about ghostish

What does ghostish mean?
Ghostish means ghostly; spectral.
What part of speech is ghostish?
Ghostish is an adjective.

Words near ghostish in the dictionary

  1. ghostifying
  2. ghostily
  3. ghostiness
  4. ghosting
  5. ghostings
  6. ghostish
  7. ghostishly
  8. ghostism
  9. ghostkind
  10. ghostking
  11. ghostkings

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