will-o'-the-wisp

Noun

Meaning

See Ignis fatuus.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Alternative names

will o' the wisp

Synonyms

mirage hallucination phantasm phantasma wisp ignis fatuus jack-o'-lantern friar's lantern

Antonyms

actable realizable accomplishable poss securable conjecturable

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Hypernyms

phantasy light fantasy illusion fancy

Examples

Financial "synergy" is a will-o'-the-wisp. It looks good on paper, but it fails to work out in practice. Peter Drucker

I am nothing - a will-o'-the-wisp at your service - a clod of vivified dust whom its progenitors christened Amos Midwinter. I have no possession but my name, and no calling but that of philosopher. Naked I came from the earth, and naked I will return to it. John Buchan

Close letter words and terms

will-lessly will-lessness will-maker will-worship Willa willa sibert cather