SPECTER as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • a mental representation of some haunting experience
   Synonym(s)
   • ghost (what does ghost mean?)
   • shade (what does shade mean?)
   • spectre (what does spectre mean?)
   • spook (what does spook mean?)
   • wraith (what does wraith mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • he looked like he had seen a ghost
   • it aroused specters from his past
   Hypernyms(s) specter is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • apparition (what does apparition mean?)
   • phantom (what does phantom mean?)
   • phantasm (what does phantasm mean?)
   • phantasma (what does phantasma mean?)
   • shadow (what does shadow mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • spook (what does spook mean?)
   • haunt (what does haunt mean?)
   • obsess (what does obsess mean?)
   • ghost (what does ghost mean?)
2. Meaning
   • a ghostly appearing figure
   Synonym(s)
   • apparition (what does apparition mean?)
   • phantasm (what does phantasm mean?)
   • phantasma (what does phantasma mean?)
   • phantom (what does phantom mean?)
   • spectre (what does spectre mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us
   Hypernyms(s) specter is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • spirit (what does spirit mean?)
   • disembodied spirit (what does disembodied spirit mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • Flying Dutchman (what does Flying Dutchman mean?)