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Incorporeal vs Ghostly - What's the difference?

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Incorporeal is a related term of ghostly.


As adjectives the difference between incorporeal and ghostly

is that incorporeal is having no material form or physical substance while ghostly is of or pertaining to ghosts or spirits.

incorporeal

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having no material form or physical substance.
  • * Milton
    • Thus incorporeal spirits to smaller forms / Reduced their shapes immense.
  • * Bentley
    • Sense and perception must necessarily proceed from some incorporeal substance within us.
  • (legal) Relating to an asset that does not have a material form; such as a patent.

    • Synonyms

    * (having no material form) disembodied; intangible

    Antonyms

    * corporeal

    ghostly

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Of or pertaining to ghosts or spirits.
    • a ghostly figure with a hood.
  • Spooky; frightening.
  • Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual.
    • a ghostly confessor
  • * Book of Common Prayer
    • Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • One of the ghostly children of St. Jerome.

    Synonyms

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