Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without spirit, soul, or life.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Without life or spirit.
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- adjective Without
spirit ,soul , orlife ;dead . - adjective Without a
ghost .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I've been asked repeatedly whether there were any ghosts, and for better or worse, there weren't (frankly, I prefer my castles ghostless), but you can't help but contemplate the lives of those who were climbing the same steps three, four or five hundred years ago.
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I've been asked repeatedly whether there were any ghosts, and for better or worse, there weren't (frankly, I prefer my castles ghostless), but you can't help but contemplate the lives of those who were climbing the same steps three, four or five hundred years ago.
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She treated the schoolmaster's dream as vapour, and the old days as dead and ghostless.
Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete George Meredith 1868
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She treated the schoolmaster's dream as vapour, and the old days as dead and ghostless.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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She treated the schoolmaster's dream as vapour, and the old days as dead and ghostless.
Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868
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The theoretical astronomer posits a planet populated by ghosts posited by another theoretical astronomer on another distant, ghostless planet, and wonders if he, the first theoretical astronomer, is on this planet now.
Metamorphosism 2009
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