Synonyms: wraith, ghost, shade, specter, spectre, spook
Definition: a mental representation of some haunting experience
Usage: he looked like he had seen a ghost; it aroused specters from his past
Similar words: apparition, shadow, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, fantasm
Definition: something existing in perception only
Usage: a ghostly apparition at midnight
Definition: a suggestion of some quality
Usage: there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone; he detected a ghost of a smile on her face
Similar words: proposition, proffer, suggestion
Definition: a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection
Usage: it was a suggestion we couldn't refuse
Synonyms: ghost
Definition: the visible disembodied soul of a dead person
Definition: the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life
Synonyms: ghost, ghostwriter
Definition: a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else
Definition: writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
Synonyms: ghost, ghostwrite
Definition: write for someone else
Usage: How many books have you ghostwritten so far?
Synonyms: obsess, ghost, haunt
Definition: haunt like a ghost; pursue
Usage: Fear of illness haunts her
Similar words: preoccupy
Definition: engage or engross the interest or attention of beforehand or occupy urgently or obsessively
Usage: His work preoccupies him; The matter preoccupies her completely--she cannot think of anything else
Synonyms: ghost
Definition: move like a ghost
Usage: The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard
Similar words: go, locomote, travel, move
Definition: change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
Usage: How fast does your new car go?; We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus; The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect; The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell; news travelled fast