ghostlike

adjective

Definition of ghostlikenext
as in ghostly

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ghostlike
  1. ghostly
  2. spectral
  3. phantom
Adjective
  • Many years in the distant future, after a devastating war reshaped the entire globe, a queen sends Gray into the ghostly wilderness of the Lost Lands, where the laws of nature don't apply.
    EW.com, EW.com, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Also noteworthy is the island’s caliche forest, a ghostly collection of calcified prehistoric plants.
    Nicholas DeRenzo, AFAR Media, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of ghostly
Adjective
  • Reuniting with go-to Hollywood screenwriter David Koepp, who wrote his kicky techno-thriller Kimi, the director tells a familiar haunted-house story but from the haunter’s perspective — literally, as the entire movie unfolds from a spectral first-person POV!
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2025
  • This image is a composite created using the different spectral capabilities of three different high-powered telescopes.
    Space.com Staff, Space.com, 1 Jan. 2025
Definition of spectral
Adjective
  • The taxpayer is already struggling to pay for everyday expenses, and then also has to pay capital gains tax on phantom gains.
    Jon Styf | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 30 Dec. 2024
  • But that estimate sharply dropped once authorities subtracted the amount of phantom investment gains and interest that Madoff’s customers were duped into believing existed.
    Dan Mangan, CNBC, 30 Dec. 2024
Definition of phantom
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Thesaurus Entries Near ghostlike

ghosting

ghostlike

ghostliness

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