spectre

Noun

Meaning

Something preternaturally visible; an apparition; a ghost; a phantom.

The tarsius.

A stick insect.

See Specter.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

phantom wraith specter spook ghost shade apparition phantasm phantasma fantasm mirage chimera goblin revenant hobgoblin

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Antonyms

reality check real life divine nature physical appearance big opportunity rare opportunity

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Hypernyms

phantom spirit shadow apparition phantasm phantasma

Hyponyms

Flying Dutchman

Phrases with the word

spectre of the Brocken fictional spectre

Anagrams

respect scepter sceptre specter

Examples

What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow. Mary Shelley

Over a half-century has passed since the hell of the Holocaust, but its spectre still hangs over the world and doesn't allow us to forget. Irena Sendler

I see the Fourfold Man the Humanity in deadly sleep, And its fallen Emanation, the Spectre and its cruel Shadow. I see the Past, Present, and Future existing all at once Before me. William Blake

Every Thing has its Vermin O Spectre of the Sleeping Dead! William Blake

It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the spectre of Communism with a Manifesto of the party itself. Karl Marx

Truth is a spectre that scares many. English Proverb

Close letter words and terms

spectraplakin spectratype spectratyping spectre at the feast spectre bat spectre of the Brocken