Definition for Spectre:

• See Specter.

Synonyms for Spectre:

• n.

  •shade (noun)
  • shade.
  •specter (noun)
  • specter.
  •spectre (noun)
  • spook,
  • wraith.
  •unsubstantiality (noun)
  • impalpability,
  • immateriality,
  • insignificance,
  • mirage,
  • vacancy,
  • tenuousness,
  • cipher,
  • nonexistence,
  • zero,
  • emptiness,
  • Ethereality,
  • intangibility,
  • vacuity,
  • Nihility,
  • nullity,
  • unreality,
  • nothingness.

• Other synonyms:

  •n.
  • apparition,
  • disembodied spirit,
  • ghost,
  • illusion,
  • phantom,
  • proposal,
  • shadow,
  • spirit,
  • vision,
  • Fantasm,
  • Phantasm,
  • Phantasma.

Paraphrases for Spectre:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    ghost.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    threat, range, cross-section, nightmare, scope.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    spectrum, Spectra.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    phantom, spectrum, Spectra, spirit, shadow, scarecrow, fantasy.

Spectre Sentence Examples:

• Could tears have turn'd the tyrant in his course, Could sighs have check'd his dart's relentless force; Could youth and virtue claim a short delay, Or beauty charm the spectre from his prey.

• The present scene melted away to give place to another, - to others which were burnt upon his memory in lines of fire; to one which he could see in his imagination, with which he had a horrible connection, which he could not dismiss out of his thoughts, though he was in reality a fugitive from it, flying the vicinity, the possible sight, the spectre of a ruin which was beyond description.

Homophones for Spectre:

• suppository, subsidiary, spectator, specter, subjugator, sophistry, spice tree, sob story, spector, sob sister, space heater, subject area, subsister.