Word Meanings - PHANTOM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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,

Additional info about word: PHANTOM

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 , 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 anæsthetic.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PHANTOM)

• Ghost
• Spectre
• apparition
• spirit
• vision
• shade
• phantom
• Shadow
• Umbration
• reflection
• image
• sham
• unsubstantiality
• immaterial
• attendant
• Sham
• Phantom
• ghost
• delusion
• illusion
• mockery
• shadow
• pretence
• counterfeit
• unreality

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PHANTOM)

• Expose
• unmask
• detect

Related words: (words related to PHANTOM)

• SPIRITUOUS
  1. Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. 2. Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent;
• DETECTOR BAR
  A bar, connected with a switch, longer than the distance between any two consecutive wheels of a train , laid inside a rail and operated by the wheels so that the switch cannot be thrown until all the train is past the switch.
• SHADOWY
  1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon
• VISIONARY
  1. Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions. The visionary hour When musing midnight reigns. Thomson. 2. Affected by phantoms; disposed to receive impressions on the imagination; given
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• ILLUSIONABLE
  Liable to illusion.
• SPIRITUALIZE
  To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. (more info) 1. To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize
• GHOSTLESS
  Without life or spirit.
• IMMATERIALIST
  One who believes in or professes, immaterialism.
• SPIRITUOSITY
  The quality or state of being spirituous; spirituousness.
• SHADELESS
  Being without shade; not shaded.
• GHOSTOLOGY
  Ghost lore. It seemed even more unaccountable than if it had been a thing of ghostology and witchcraft. Hawthorne.
• SHADEFUL
  Full of shade; shady.
• SPIRITUAL-MINDED
  Having the mind set on spiritual things, or filled with holy desires and affections. -- Spir"it*u*al-mind`ed*ness, n.
• EXPOSEDNESS
  The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
• IMMATERIAL
  1. Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied. Angels are spirits immaterial and intellectual. Hooker. 2. Of no substantial consequence; without weight or significance; unimportant; as, it is wholly immaterial whether he does
• SPIRITISM
  Spiritualsm.
• SPIRIT
  Rum, whisky, brandy, gin, and other distilled liquors having much alcohol, in distinction from wine and malt liquors. (more info) 1. Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself. "All of spirit would deprive." Spenser.
• ILLUSIONIST
  One given to illusion; a visionary dreamer.
• APPARITIONAL
  Pertaining to an apparition or to apparitions; spectral. "An apparitional soul." Tylor.
• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• PUBLIC-SPIRITED
  1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly,
• SUPERREFLECTION
  The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon.
• DISPIRITED
  Depressed in spirits; disheartened; daunted. -- Dis*pir"it*ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*pir"it*ed, n.
• DOUBLE-SHADE
  To double the natural darkness of . Milton.
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• SELF-DELUSION
  The act of deluding one's self, or the state of being thus deluded.
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• DISSPIRIT
  See DISPIRIT
• OVERSHADE
  To cover with shade; to render dark or gloomy; to overshadow. Shak.