Crossword clues for ghostlike
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ghostlike \Ghost"like`\, a. Like a ghost; ghastly.
Wiktionary
a. Seemingly invisible; as a ghost, similar to a ghost.
WordNet
adj. like or being a phantom; "a ghostly face at the window"; "a phantasmal presence in the room"; "spectral emanations"; "spiritual tappings at a seance" [syn: apparitional, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual]
Usage examples of "ghostlike".
It was uncanny, ghostlike, and even though Phil had never seen a corpse, he knew instinctively that this was the death pallor.
As I watched, the evening wind came down, scouring the ruin, and the shadow of a stool collapsed noiselessly into ash, flurries of soot and char moving ghostlike over the ground.
He glanced toward the window, as though to catch a glimpse of Christie, but the night had come down altogether, and the panes gave back only a dim reflection of the surgery, our own forms ghostlike in the glass.
Away along the deck, which offered ample range, The Shadow was a fading, ghostlike target, gone before his opponents knew it.
Catherine was actually ghostlike as she descended the steps to the lawn, for she was draped in a large beach towel and was wearing a white bathing cap.
It seemed as if she were soaking into the stone of the tower itself, slipping ghostlike through its chambers, spreading out to become one with it, as she had become one with the Maelmord.
She wanted to believe that he could do it, that he could move, ghostlike, across the clearing, creeping slowly, silently, invisibly past the Mayans standing guard there.
At her head crouched the Negress, her white garments showing ghostlike through the gloom.
Beyond, the woods had been burnt, the trees rising from the red ground like charred and blackened stakes, with the ghostlike mist between.
Aunt Agatha went to bed to listen tremblingly while the dare-devil dance of the flute tripped ghostlike through the corridors.
The girl rose and moved off toward the van looming ghostlike through the trees.
Surely the old desk, locked this many a year, might hold some breath of the tragedy that had ghostlike trailed her footsteps.
As before, I moved ghostlike through all the rooms, and as before I found no sign of recent occupation.
Elizabeth went very ghostlike herself upon hearing of the attack and my consequent injuries and had to be well assured that though shaken, I was mostly recovered in the physical sense.
The full moon spilled down, ghostlike fingers of silver creating a dreamlike atmosphere and reflecting on the pools of water around her.