adjective
- Resembling or characteristic of a phantom.
- usage: "a ghostly face at the window"; "a phantasmal presence in the room"; "spectral emanations"; "spiritual tappings at a seance"
- synonyms: apparitional, ghostlike, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual
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