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Ghost - 12 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | ghost |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spirit of the dead |
| Synonyms: | apparition, appearance, demon, devil, haunt, phantasm, phantom, poltergeist, revenant, shade, shadow, soul, specter, spook, vision, visitor, wraith, banshee, daemon, eidolon, ethereal being, incorporeal being, kelpie, manes, vampire, zombie |
| Antonyms: | being, entity |
| Main Entry: | author |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | composer of written work |
| Synonyms: | columnist, composer, creator, ghost, journalist, originator, playwright, poet, reporter, scribe, writer, biographer, essayist, ghostwriter, ink slinger, producer, prose writer, scribbler, scripter, word slinger, wordsmith, work-for-hire |
| Main Entry: | delusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misconception, misbelief |
| Synonyms: | apparition, blunder, casuistry, chicanery, daydream, deception, deceptiveness, dream, eidolon, error, fallacy, false impression, fancy, fantasy, figment*, fool's paradise, ghost, hallucination, head trip, ignis fatuus, illusion, lapse, mirage, misapprehension, mistake, optical illusion, oversight, phantasm, phantom, pipe dream*, self-deception, shade, speciousness, spuriousness, trickery, trip, vision |
| Notes: | allusion is an 'indirect mention,' illusion is 'false impression,' and delusion is 'deception' which is much stronger than illusion hallucination is from disturbed sensory perceptions; delusion is from disturbed thinking an illusion is an image or conception of something actual or real that presents itself to the mind in an abnormal or distorted manner; a delusion is a false belief about oneself or other people that persists despite its being at variance with the facts |
| Antonyms: | actuality, certainty, fact, reality, surety, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | illusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | false appearance; false belief |
| Synonyms: | apparition, bubble*, chimera, confusion, daydream, deception, delusion, déjè vu, error, fallacy, false impression, fancy, fantasy, figment of imagination, fool's paradise, ghost, hallucination, head trip, hocus-pocus*, idolism, ignus fatuus, image, invention, make-believe, mirage, misapprehension, misbelief, misconception, misimpression, mockery, myth, optical illusion, paramnesia, phantasm, pipe dream*, rainbow*, seeming, semblance, trip*, virtual reality |
| Antonyms: | certainty, event, fact, reality, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | substitute |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | someone or something that takes the place of another |
| Synonyms: | agent, alternate, assistant, auxiliary, backup, delegate, deputy, double, dummy, equivalent, expedient, ghost, ghost writer, makeshift, proxy, recourse, refuge, relay, relief, replacement, representative, reserve, resort, resource, stand-in, standby, stopgap*, sub*, successor, supply, surrogate, symbol, temporary, understudy, vicar, changeling, dernier ressort, expediency, fill-in, locum, locum tenens, pinch-hitter, procurator, succedaneum, supplanter, temp, temporary expedient |
| Antonyms: | permanent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | write |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | put language down on paper |
| Synonyms: | address, author, autograph, commit, communicate, compose, copy, correspond, create, draft, draw up*, engross, formulate, ghost, indite, inscribe, knock off*, knock out*, letter, note, pen, print, record, reproduce, rewrite, scrawl, scribble, scribe, sign, take down, tell, transcribe, turn out, bang out, chalk*, comp, dash off, drop a line, drop a note, ink, jot down, note down, pencil, push a pencil, put in writing, scriven, set down, set forth, typewrite, write down, write up |
| Antonyms: | read |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ghost writer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | actual but not official author |
| Synonyms: | ghost, surrogate, ghostwriter |
| Main Entry: | absent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not present |
| Synonyms: | astray, away, elsewhere, ghost, gone, missing, removed, vanished, AWOL, hooky, no-show, nobody home |
| Antonyms: | existing, present, attending |
| Main Entry: | compose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | create writing, artwork, or music |
| Synonyms: | author, cast, conceive, contrive, cook up*, design, devise, discover, draw up, dream up, fabricate, forge, form, formulate, frame*, ghost*, imagine, indite, invent, knock off*, knock out*, make up, orchestrate, originate, pen, produce, put down, score, scribble, script, set up, time, turn out, whip up*, write, bang out, clef, coin a phrase, comp, fudge together, ghostwrite, note down, poetize, push pencil, put pen to paper, set type |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | soul |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | being |
| Synonyms: | body, character, creature, ghost, human being, individual, man, mortal, person, personage, phantom, shadow, spirit, woman, living soul, umbra |
| Main Entry: | depressed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disadvantaged |
| Synonyms: | destitute, distressed, ghetto, ghost, impaired, needy, poor, poverty-stricken, run-down, shanty, skid row*, underprivileged, weakened, cheapened, depreciated, deprived, devalued |
| Antonyms: | blessed, flourishing, prosperous, rich |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vision |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | apparition |
| Synonyms: | apocalypse, chimera, delusion, ecstasy, fantasy, ghost, hallucination, haunt, illusion, mirage, nightmare, oracle, phantasm, phantom, phenomenon, presence, prophecy, revelation, specter, spirit, spook, trance, warlock, wraith |
| Antonyms: | actuality, fact, reality |
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