Phantom: alternatives and connections

Not real; unsubstantial; fanciful; ideal.

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Not real; unsubstantial; fanciful; ideal.

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The spirit; the soul of man.

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Comparative obscurity owing to interception or interruption of the rays of light; partial darkness caused by the intervention of something between th…

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Alt. of Spectre

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

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A spirit; a ghost; an apparition; a hobgoblin.

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An apparition of a person in his exact likeness, seen before death, or a little after; hence, an apparition; a specter; a vision; an unreal image.

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An unreal image presented to the bodily or mental vision; a deceptive appearance; a false show; mockery; hallucination.

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Seeming; appearance; show; figure; form.

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Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.

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The act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.

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Same as Phantasm.

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An image formed by the mind, and supposed to be real or material; a shadowy or airy appearance; sometimes, an optical illusion; a phantom; a dream.

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A phantasm.

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Shade within defined limits; obscurity or deprivation of light, apparent on a surface, and representing the form of the body which intercepts the ray…

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Alt. of Spectre

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

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

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.