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