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phantom - 18 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | phantom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ghost; figment of the imagination |
| Synonyms: | apparition, chimera, daydream, delusion, dream, figment, hallucination, haunt, illusion, mirage, nightmare, phantasm, revenant, shade, shadow, specter, spirit, spook, vision, wraith, eidolon, ignis fatuus |
| Antonyms: | reality |
| Main Entry: | apparition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ghost |
| Synonyms: | chimera, delusion, hallucination, haunt, illusion, phantasm, phantom, revenant, specter, spirit, spook, bogeyman, bump in the night, visitant |
| Antonyms: | animate, being |
| 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: | elusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | evasive, mysterious |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, baffling, cagey, deceitful, deceptive, equivocal, evanescent, fallacious, fleeting, fraudulent, fugitive, greasy, illusory, incomprehensible, insubstantial, intangible, misleading, occult, phantom, puzzling, shifty, shy, slippery, subtle, transient, transitory, tricky, volatile, difficult to catch, elusory, fugacious, imponderable, indefinable, stonewalling, unspecific |
| Antonyms: | confronting, facing, inviting, attracting, encountering, enticing |
| 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: | ghostly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | spooky |
| Synonyms: | cadaverous, divine, eerie, ghastly, haunted, holy, illusory, insubstantial, pale, phantom, scary, shadowy, spectral, spiritual, supernatural, uncanny, unearthly, wan, weird, apparitional, corpselike, deathlike, eidolic, ghostlike, phantasmal, vampiric, wraithlike, wraithy |
| Main Entry: | hallucination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dream, delusion |
| Synonyms: | aberration, apparition, fantasy, figment of the imagination*, head trip, illusion, mirage, phantasm, phantom, trip*, vision, wraith, phantasmagoria |
| Antonyms: | experience, fact, reality, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | obsession |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fixation; consumption with belief, desire |
| Synonyms: | attraction, ax to grind*, case*, complex, compulsion, craze*, crush, delusion, enthusiasm, fancy, fascination, fetish, hang-up*, idée fixe, infatuation, mania, monkey*, must, neurosis, one-track mind*, passion, phantom, phobia, preoccupation, thing*, bug in ear, concrete idea, something on the brain, tiger by the tail |
| Antonyms: | indifference |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | poltergeist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ghost |
| Synonyms: | apparition, appearance, demon, doppelganger, phantasm, phantom, revenant, specter, spirit, spook, vision, visitor, banshee, haunter, kelpie |
| Main Entry: | specter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ghost |
| Synonyms: | apparition, appearance, demon, doppelganger, phantasm, phantom, poltergeist, presence, shadow, spirit, spook, vision |
| Main Entry: | spectral |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ghostly |
| Synonyms: | eerie, haunted, illusory, phantom, scary, shadowy, spiritual, spooky, supernatural, apparitional, phantasmal |
| Main Entry: | supernatural |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mysterious, not of this world |
| Synonyms: | abnormal, celestial, concealed, dark, fabulous, fairy, ghostly, heavenly, hidden, impenetrable, invisible, legendary, metaphysical, miraculous, mystic, mythical, obscure, occult, paranormal, phantom, phenomenal, preternatural, psychic, rare, secret, spectral, superhuman, superior, transcendental, uncanny, unearthly, unfathomable, unintelligible, unknown, unnatural, unusual, mythological, numinous, supermundane, superordinary, supranatural, uncomprehensible, unknowable, unrevealed |
| Antonyms: | earthly, genuine, natural, real, true, existent |
| Main Entry: | unearthly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | supernatural; very strange |
| Synonyms: | abnormal, absurd, appalling, devilish, eerie, ethereal, extraordinary, fiendish, frightening, funereal, ghastly, ghostly, ghoulish, hair-raising, haunted, heavenly, miraculous, nightmarish, phantom, preternatural, ridiculous, scary, sepulchral, spectral, spooky*, sublime, superhuman, uncanny, ungodly, unholy, unreasonable, weird, demoniac, hyperphysical, not of this world |
| Antonyms: | earthly, natural, physical |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fancy |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | imagine, create |
| Synonyms: | be inclined to think, believe, conceive, conjecture, dream up, envisage, envision, fantasize, feature*, guess, head trip, image, infer, make up, make up off top of one's head, phantom, picture, realize, reckon, spark, spitball, suppose, surmise, think, think likely, think up, trump up, vision, visualize |
* = 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: | spirit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ghost |
| Synonyms: | apparition, phantasm, phantom, poltergeist, shade, shadow, soul, specter, spook, sprite, supernatural being, vision, wraith, eidolon, umbra |
| Antonyms: | being, reality |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | shade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ghost |
| Synonyms: | apparition, haunt, phantasm, phantom, revenant, shadow, specter, spirit, wraith, bogey, manes, umbra |
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