| Main Entry: | ghostly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | spooky |
Synonyms: |
apparitional, cadaverous, corpselike, deathlike, divine, eerie, eidolic, ghastly, ghostlike, haunted, holy, illusory, insubstantial, pale, phantasmal, phantom, scary, shadowy, spectral, spiritual, supernatural, uncanny, unearthly, vampiric, wan, weird, wraithlike, wraithy |
| Main Entry: | imaginary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fictitious, invented |
Synonyms: |
abstract, apocryphal, apparitional, assumed, chimerical, deceptive, delusive, dreamed-up, dreamlike, dreamy, fabulous, fancied, fanciful, fantastic, fictional, figmental, fool's paradise, hallucinatory, hypothetical, ideal, illusive, illusory, imaginative, imagined, legendary, made-up, mythological, nonexistent, notional, phantasmal, phantasmic, quixotic, shadowy, spectral, supposed, supposititious, theoretical, trumped up, unreal, unsubstantial, visionary, whimsical |
| Notes: | imaginary means not based on fact while imaginative means marked by independence and creativity in thought or action |
Antonyms: |
existing, factual, genuine, physical, real, substantial, true |
| Main Entry: | immaterial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not existing in physical form |
Synonyms: |
aerial, airy, apparitional, asomatous, bodiless, celestial, disbodied, discarnate, disembodied, dreamlike, dreamy, ethereal, ghostly, heavenly, impalpable, imponderable, incorporate, incorporeal, insensible, intangible, metaphysical, nonmaterial, nonphysical, psychic, shadowy, spectral, spiritlike, spiritual, subjective, supernatural, unearthly, unembodied, unfleshly, unsubstantial, unworldly, wraithlike |
Antonyms: |
bodily, material, physical, real, solid, substantial |
| Main Entry: | spectral |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ghostly |
Synonyms: |
apparitional, eerie, haunted, illusory, phantasmal, phantom, scary, shadowy, spiritual, spooky, supernatural |
| Main Entry: | nonphysical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immaterial |
Synonyms: |
aerial, airy, apparitional, asomatous, bodiless, celestial, disbodied, discarnate, disembodied, dreamlike, dreamy, ethereal, ghostly, heavenly, impalpable, imponderable, incorporate, incorporeal, insensible, insubstantial, intangible, metaphysical, nonmaterial, psychic, shadowy, spectral, spiritlike, spiritual, subjective, supernatural, unbodied, uncorporal, unearthly, unembodied, unfleshly, unsubstantial, unworldly, wraithlike |
| Main Entry: | notional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | imaginary |
Synonyms: |
abstract, apocryphal, apparitional, assumed, chimeric, chimerical, conceptual, deceptive, delusive, dreamed-up, dreamlike, dreamy, fabulous, fancied, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, fictional, figmental, fool's paradise, hallucinatory, hypothetical, ideal, illusive, illusory, imaginative, imagined, legendary, made-up, mythological, nonexistent, phantasmal, phantasmic, quixotic, shadowy, spectral, supposed, supposititious, theoretical, trumped up, unreal, unsubstantial, visionary, whimsical |
| Main Entry: | unbodied |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immaterial |
Synonyms: |
aerial, airy, apparitional, asomatous, bodiless, celestial, disbodied, discarnate, disembodied, dreamlike, dreamy*, ethereal, ghostly, heavenly, impalpable, imponderable, incorporate, incorporeal, insensible, insubstantial, intangible, metaphysical, nonmaterial, nonphysical, psychic, shadowy, spectral, spiritlike, spiritual, subjective, supernatural, uncorporal, unearthly, unembodied, unfleshly, unsubstantial, unworldly, wraithlike |
| Main Entry: | uncorporal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immaterial |
Synonyms: |
aerial, airy, apparitional, asomatous, bodiless, celestial, disbodied, discarnate, disembodied, dreamlike, dreamy*, ethereal, ghostly, heavenly, impalpable, imponderable, incorporate, incorporeal, insensible, insubstantial, intangible, metaphysical, nonmaterial, nonphysical, psychic, shadowy, spectral, spiritlike, spiritual, subjective, supernatural, unbodied, unearthly, unembodied, unfleshly, unsubstantial, unworldly, wraithlike |