Synonyms for spectre

Synonyms for (noun) spectre

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


Synonyms: phantasm, phantasma, phantom, specter, spectre, apparition, fantasm

Definition: a ghostly appearing figure

Usage: we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us

Similar words: disembodied spirit, spirit

Definition: any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings


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