🔄 Synonyms of "Phantom"
5 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| specternoun | A ghostly apparition, a phantom. [from 17th c.] |
| apparitionnoun | An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; especially, one by a ghost, phantom, or suchlike; the entity itself. |
| spectrenoun | British standard spelling of specter. |
| unreal | Not real or substantial; having no actual presence in reality; lacking the characteristics of reality. |
| shadownoun | A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object. |
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| specternoun | A ghostly apparition, a phantom. [from 17th c.] |
| spectrenoun | British standard spelling of specter. |
| apparitionnoun | An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; especially, one by a ghost, phantom, or suchlike; the entity itself. |
| shadownoun | A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object. |
| unreal | Not real or substantial; having no actual presence in reality; lacking the characteristics of reality. |
| spooknoun | (informal) A scare or fright. |
| ghostnoun | A disembodied soul; a soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death. |
| spiritnoun | The soul of a person or other creature. |
| fantasynoun | (literature) The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc. |
| imaginarynoun | Existing only in the imagination. |
| bogeynoun | (golf) A score of one over par on a hole. |
| notionalnoun | A fake company used as a front in espionage. |
| figmentnoun | A fabrication, fantasy, invention; something fictitious. |
| fictional | Invented, as opposed to real. |
| fictivenoun | (Internet slang) From the living character and multiplicity subculture: a headmate who is in some way a character from a fictional work, whether in inspiration, form, or identity. Originally popularized with soulbonds, and also used for fictional introjects and dissociative identity disorder. |
| fictitious | Invented; contrived. |
| illusory | Resulting from an illusion; deceptive, imaginary, unreal. |
| hauntingnoun | A particular instance of haunting; a ghostly habitation. |
| insertnoun | An image inserted into text. |
| bogusnoun | (US, dialect) A liquor made of rum and molasses. |
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