Definition of Ghostlier

1. Adjective. (comparative of ghostly) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ghostlier

1. ghostly [adj] - See also: ghostly

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ghostlier

ghostbusters
ghostbusting
ghosted
ghostfish
ghostfishes
ghosthunter
ghosthunters
ghosthunting
ghostie
ghostier
ghosties
ghostiest
ghosting
ghostings
ghostless
ghostlier (current term)
ghostliest
ghostlike
ghostlily
ghostliness
ghostlinesses
ghostly
ghostologies
ghostology
ghosts
ghostship
ghostships
ghostwrite
ghostwriter
ghostwriters

Literary usage of Ghostlier

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1916)
"Boccaccio had evaded the ghostlier suggestions of the scene by making the body miraculously intact. Keats does not evade them; but he ennobles what he will ..."

2. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1854)
"The human world had ebbed away, and another, and a ghostlier, was left stranded in the silence. The pale gleam of the early moon, ..."

3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1892)
"The blinds were close drawn, and the whole house looked ghostlier and more deserted than the other had done. There was a row of bell-knobs on the right- ..."

4. "Out of the East.": Reveries and Studies in New Japan by Lafcadio Hearn (1896)
"This has the ghostlier power of separating itself from earth, yet is always at last recalled thereto, and condemned to feed that which it once fed upon. ..."

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