Synonyms for specter
ˈspɛk tərspecter

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1. ghost, shade, spook, wraith, specter, spectrenoun

   a mental representation of some haunting experience

   "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"

   Synonyms:
   phantasma, phantom, wraith, shade, shadowiness, shadiness, touch, weirdo, weirdy, nuance, weirdie, ghost, tincture, ghostwriter, tint, nicety, apparition, trace, phantasm, tad, spectre, spook, subtlety, tone, creep, fantasm, refinement

2. apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, specter, spectrenoun

   a ghostly appearing figure

   "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us"

   Synonyms:
   spook, phantasma, shade, phantasm, shadow, apparition, ghost, fantasm, phantom, wraith, spectre

Matched Categories

1. • Apparition
   • Spirit

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1. specternoun

   Synonyms:
   phantom, apparition, shade, ghost, manes, spirit, wraith, spook

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1. List of paraphrases for "specter":

   spector, spectre, spectrum, ghost, phantom

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How to use specter in a sentence?

1. Joseph Conrad:

   How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

2. Martin Tobias Lithner:

   As philosophers tread the path where circuits intertwine with consciousness, the specter of machine sentience challenges not only our ethical compass but forces us to reconsider the sanctity of consciousness, questioning whether it is an exclusive birthright of biology or a frontier open to the artifice of silicon minds.

3. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.

4. Mark Langevin:

   Bolsonaro appears to be visibly upset at what has happened in United States because United States raises the specter of Jair Bolsonaro own potential electoral failing in Jair Bolsonaro bid for reelection in two years.

5. Benigno Aquino on Friday:

   Uncertainty and the specter of a dictatorship are looming over our country once again.