Specter

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  • noun. A ghostly apparition; a phantom.
  • noun. A haunting or disturbing image or prospect.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A ghostly apparition; a visible incorporeal human spirit; an appearance of the dead as when living.
  • noun. In zoology: One of many names of gressorial orthopterous insects of the family Phasmidæ; a walking-stick or stick-insect; a specter-insect.
  • noun. The specter-bat.
  • noun. The specter-lemur.
  • noun. A specter-shrimp.
  • noun. Synonyms Apparition, Phantom, etc. See ghost.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Something preternaturally visible; an apparition; a ghost; a phantom.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The tarsius.
  • noun. A stick insect.
  • noun. any phyllostome bat.
  • noun. a belemnite.
  • noun. a skeleton shrimp. See under Skeleton.
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  • noun. A ghostly apparition.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a ghostly appearing figure
  • noun. a mental representation of some haunting experience
    • Word Usage
    "May 10th, 2010 4: 32 pm ET arlen specter is still alive?"
    cross-reference
    specter of the brocken  
    Equivalent
    spectre  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    apparition  fantasm  phantasm  phantasma  phantom  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Hector  Rector  Schechter  collector  connecter  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    abyss  aftermath  apparition  brink  foreboding  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Dracula  Frankenstein  Wolf-man  apparition  apparition  
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