ghosty

The spirit of a dead person, especially one believed to appear in bodily likeness to living persons or to haunt former habitats.

The center of spiritual life; the soul.

A demon or spirit.

A returning or haunting memory or image.

1. A slight or faint trace: just a ghost of a smile.

2. The tiniest bit: not a ghost of a chance.

3. A secondary image on a television or radar screen caused by reflected waves.

4. A displaced image in a photograph caused by the optical system of the camera.

5. A false spectral line caused by imperfections in the diffraction grating.

6. A displaced image in a mirror caused by reflection from the front of the glass.

7. A nonexistent publication listed in bibliographies.

8. A fictitious employee or business.

A faint, false image, as:

1. A secondary image on a television or radar screen caused by reflected waves.

2. A displaced image in a photograph caused by the optical system of the camera.

3. A false spectral line caused by imperfections in the diffraction grating.

4. A displaced image in a mirror caused by reflection from the front of the glass.

5. A nonexistent publication listed in bibliographies.

6. A fictitious employee or business.

Informal A ghostwriter.

1. A nonexistent publication listed in bibliographies.

2. A fictitious employee or business.

Physiology A red blood cell having no hemoglobin.

Informal To engage in ghostwriting.

To move noiselessly like a ghost: "Two young deer ghosted out of the woods" (Nancy M. Debevoise).

To haunt.

Informal To ghostwrite: was hired to ghost the memoirs of a famous executive.