specter

Noun

Meaning

Alt. of Spectre

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

phantom wraith spook ghost shade apparition spectre presence spirit shadow menace phantasm phantasma vision threat
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Antonyms

bliss being living absence alive confidence
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Hypernyms

phantom spirit shadow apparition phantasm phantasma

Hyponyms

Flying Dutchman

Phrases with the word

specter of the Brocken specter of mortality specter insect insect specter specter candle specter shrimp

Anagrams

respect scepter sceptre spectre

Examples

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism. Karl Marx

Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses woman's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all of men's relationships with women. Camille Paglia

No new choices are introduced by raising the specter of disaster. These become opportunities for swearing new allegiance to technology. The solution is to discover new technologies that will correct and modify the harm either potentially or already caused by present technologies. Donald Phillip Verene

My specter around me night and day Like a wild beast guards my way, My emanation far within Weeps incessantly for my sin. William Blake

Out of the seventy movies I've written some ten of them were not entirely waste product. These were Underworld, The Scoundrel, Wuthering Heights, Viva Villa, Scarface, Specter of the Rose, Actors and Sin, Roman Holiday, Spellbound, Nothing Sacred. Ben Hecht

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat? Joseph Conrad

Close letter words and terms

spectatour spectatress spectatrix specter at the feast specter bat specter candle