ghostlier
Increasingly phantom-like appearance
Ghostlier is the comparative form of ghostly—more resembling or suggestive of a ghost.
Something ghostlier than another is paler, more spectral, more eerily insubstantial: The fog made the trees look ghostlier than before.
Each successive apparition seemed ghostlier than the last.
Permitting diffused light passage
- incorporealNot made of matter
- intangibleNot physically present
- insubstantialLacking physical or material substance
- diaphanousDelicately translucent
gossamer · nebulous · wispy · vaporous · airy · faint · pale · luminous
Resembling a specter
- spectralGhostlike or wavelength-related
- phantasmalLike an apparition
- revenantReturned from death
- wraithSpectral apparition of someone
shade · spirit · specter · phantom · poltergeist · banshee · presence · manifestation
Ghostlike or wavelength-related
- phantasmalLike an apparition
- uncannyEerily beyond normal
- creepyDisturbingly strange
- chillingCausing fear or cold
ominous · sinister · macabre · foreboding · mysterious · shadowy · gloomy · dreadful
translucent
Permitting diffused light passage
- incorporealNot made of matter
- intangibleNot physically present
- insubstantialLacking physical or material substance
diaphanous · gossamer · nebulous · wispy · vaporous · airy · faint · pale · luminous · shimmering
apparitional
Resembling a specter
- spectralGhostlike or wavelength-related
- phantasmalLike an apparition
- revenantReturned from death
wraith · shade · spirit · specter · phantom · poltergeist · banshee · presence · manifestation · visitation
spectral
Ghostlike or wavelength-related
- phantasmalLike an apparition
- uncannyEerily beyond normal
- creepyDisturbingly strange
chilling · ominous · sinister · macabre · foreboding · mysterious · shadowy · gloomy · dreadful · morbid