Ghostly vs Ethereal - What's the difference?
ghostly | ethereal | Related terms |
Of or pertaining to ghosts or spirits.
Spooky; frightening.
Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual.
* Book of Common Prayer
* Jeremy Taylor
Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; otherworldly; as, ethereal space; ethereal regions.
* 1667 : , Paradise Lost , book VII
* 1862 : ,
Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc.
* 1733 : ,
Delicate, light and airy.
Ghostly is a related term of ethereal.
As adjectives the difference between ghostly and ethereal
is that ghostly is of or pertaining to ghosts or spirits while ethereal is pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; otherworldly; as, ethereal space; ethereal regions.ghostly
English
Adjective
(er)- a ghostly figure with a hood.
- a ghostly confessor
- Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies.
- One of the ghostly children of St. Jerome.
Synonyms
* See alsoSee also
* (l)ethereal
English
Alternative forms
* aethereal * aetherial * * (obsolete) * * (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Go, heavenly guest, ethereal messenger.
Walking.
- I trust that we shall be more imaginative, that our thoughts will be clearer, fresher, and more ethereal , as our sky,...
An Essay on Man
- Vast chain of being, which from God began, Natures ethereal , human, angel, man.