spectrelike en · ADJ
Etymology
From spectre + -like.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Synonym of specterlike.
Its first impact sent me staggering into the house, carried away the roof as well as the frond sides, and tore the mosquito-net from its fastenings, to whirl it, spectrelike, across the lagoon.
1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 37: