phantom
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6.7
- noun
- /ˈfæntəm/
:
fantasma
- She felt a cold breeze and thought it was the phantom of an ancient spirit.
- image of the phantom
- an immaterial phantom
My parents had ordered tickets to Phantom of the Opera.
- My parents had ordered tickets to Phantom of the Opera.
- When I'd say I'm the Phantom and no one must ever know who I am.
Examples
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Shadows from the fire leaped and danced like pagan phantoms among the black trunks of trees.
Fiction book (1995) -
Richard rubs his eyes to erase the phantom Andrea, but she darts into his mind's eye.
Fiction book (1991) -
I knew from the start there was no phantom.
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A lot of people have had sort of phantom smells or weird smells as a result of of COVID.
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All these years, i've chased a phantom.
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Moreover, they are like a phantom entity in the American and Israeli governments' discourses.
Academic text (1996) -
In the battle over the meaning of America, armies of phantoms are perpetually on the march.
Academic text (2011) -
The moment Descartes had fallen asleep, he believed he saw certain phantoms and was frightened by their appearance.
Academic text (2017) -
We both slept poorly for several nights, chased by phantom flames in repeating dream dramas.
Fiction book (1994) -
Many people claim to have seen a phantom wandering through the old castle at night.
Synonyms
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3.0
The spirit of a dead person that people can see or feel
527
7.0
A ghost or supernatural being that can appear to people
140
7.5
A false experience in which you see or hear something not there
116
9.9
A spirit or ghost that people feel is nearby
56
8.6
A ghost that people say appears and frightens them at night
19
8.9
A ghost that people see suddenly
4
9.9
A thing that seems real but is only in the mind, like a ghost
1
9.9
A ghost-like figure that seems real but is not
1
9.5
A spirit without a body that appears to people or stays near places
A ghost that appears to people
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
1
7.2
An uncomfortable feeling that seems to come from a missing arm or leg
A pale white plant with almost no leaves that gets food from fungi in shaded forests
How Ghostly
Surface Forms
Etymology
Phantom comes from an old Greek word that meant 'an appearance' and from the root phan- meaning 'to show' or 'appear', the same root you see in fantasy. So a phantom is something that seems to be there like a ghost but has no real body.