What's The Definition Of Phantom?
[n] something existing in perception only; "a ghostly apparition at midnight"
[n] a ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us"
[adj] something apparently sensed but having no physical reality; "seemed to hear faint phantom bells"; "the amputee's illusion of a phantom limb"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Phantom: apparition |
apparition |
shadow |
specter |
spectre |
unreal
Related Terms | Find terms related to Phantom: air |
airy |
airy nothing |
apparent |
apparition |
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asomatous |
astral |
astral spirit |
autistic |
banshee |
Barmecidal |
Barmecide |
bodiless |
bogey |
bogeyman |
brainchild |
bubble |
bugaboo |
bugbear |
chimaera |
chimera |
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control |
decarnate |
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deceptive |
delirium |
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departed spirit |
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disembodied spirit |
Dracula |
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dreamy |
duppy |
dybbuk |
ectoplasmic |
eidolon |
erroneous |
ether |
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etheric |
extramundane |
fallacious |
false |
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fantastic |
fantasy |
fee-faw-fum |
fiction |
figment |
figure |
form |
Frankenstein |
frightener |
ghost |
ghostish |
ghostlike |
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ghosty |
ghoul |
grateful dead |
guide |
hallucination |
hant |
haunt |
hobgoblin |
holy terror |
horror |
idle fancy |
idolum |
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image |
imagery |
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imagining |
immaterial |
immateriality |
impalpable |
imponderable |
incorporate |
incorporeal |
incorporeal being |
incorporeity |
incubus |
insubstantial |
insubstantial image |
intangible |
invention |
larva |
lemures |
maggot |
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manes |
Masan |
materialization |
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monster |
myth |
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nonmaterial |
nonphysical |
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ogre |
ogress |
oni |
ostensible |
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phantasm |
phantasma |
phantasmagoria |
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phasm |
phenomenon |
poltergeist |
presence |
psychic |
revenant |
romance |
scarebabe |
scarecrow |
scarer |
seeming |
self-deceptive |
self-deluding |
shade |
shadow |
shadowy |
shape |
shrouded spirit |
sick fancy |
smoke |
specious |
specter |
specterlike |
spectral |
spectral ghost |
spectrum |
spirit |
spiritual |
spook |
sprite |
succubus |
supernatural |
supposititious |
terror |
theophany |
thick-coming fancies |
thin air |
transmundane |
trip |
unactual |
unearthly |
unembodied |
unextended |
unfleshly |
unfounded |
unphysical |
unreal |
unsubstantial |
unsubstantiality |
unworldly |
vampire |
vapor |
vision |
visionary |
waking dream |
walking dead man |
wandering soul |
werewolf |
whim |
whimsy |
wildest dream |
wildest dreams |
Wolf-man |
wraith |
wraithlike |
wraithy |
zombie
See Also | disembodied spirit |
Flying Dutchman |
Flying Dutchman |
flying saucer |
ghost |
illusion |
semblance |
shade |
specter |
spectre |
spirit |
spook |
UFO |
unidentified flying object |
wraith
Phantom In Webster's Dictionary
\Phan"tom\, a.
Being, or of the nature of, a phantom.
Phantom isles are floating in the skies. --B. Taylor.
\Phan"tom\, n. [OE. fantome, fantosme, fantesme, OF.
fant[^o]me, fr. L. phantasma, Gr. ?, fr. ? to show. See
{Fancy}, and cf. {Pha["e]ton}, {Phantasm}, {Phase}.]
That which has only an apparent existence; an apparition; a
specter; a phantasm; a sprite; an airy spirit; an ideal
image.
Strange phantoms rising as the mists arise. --Pope.
She was a phantom of delight. --Wordsworth.
{Phantom ship}. See {Flying Dutchman}, under {Flying}.
{Phantom tumor} (Med.), a swelling, especially of the
abdomen, due to muscular spasm, accumulation of flatus,
etc., simulating an actual tumor in appearance, but
disappearing upon the administration of an an[ae]sthetic.
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