Синонимы к слову ghosts

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:3.5 / 2 votes

1. ghostnoun

   An understudy.

   Synonyms:
   suggestion, hint, ghostwriter, phantom, apparition, haint, spectre, spark, glimmer, spirit, glimmering, spook, revenant, specter, glimpse, inkling, soul, wraith

2. ghostnoun

   A covert (and deniable) agent.

   Synonyms:
   spectre, spook, glimmer, spark, haint, soul, wraith, revenant, suggestion, phantom, apparition, hint, inkling, ghostwriter, specter, glimmering, glimpse, spirit

3. ghostnoun

   Synonyms:
   echo

4. ghostnoun

   To haunt.

   Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament. Spenser

   Synonyms:
   specter, spirit, spark, glimpse, spook, suggestion, phantom, apparition, ghostwriter, revenant, haint, soul, inkling, glimmering, wraith, spectre, glimmer, hint

5. ghostnoun

   To ghostwrite.

   Synonyms:
   specter, ghostwriter, spectre, revenant, spook, suggestion, glimmer, apparition, soul, hint, glimpse, glimmering, inkling, haint, spark, phantom, wraith, spirit

6. ghostnoun

   to copy a file or hard drive image.

   Synonyms:
   specter, inkling, spook, spectre, soul, glimmering, revenant, apparition, wraith, hint, glimmer, haint, spirit, ghostwriter, spark, suggestion, phantom, glimpse

7. ghostnoun

   A false image formed in a telescope, camera, or other optical device by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.

   Synonyms:
   glimmering, wraith, haint, ghostwriter, spook, revenant, spectre, phantom, apparition, specter, spirit, hint, glimmer, spark, inkling, glimpse, suggestion, soul

8. ghostnoun

   An unwanted image similar to and overlapping or adjacent to the main one on a television screen, caused by the transmitted image being received both directly and via reflection.

   Synonyms:
   apparition, wraith, spook, soul, glimmering, spark, inkling, specter, ghostwriter, revenant, suggestion, haint, glimpse, spirit, spectre, glimmer, hint, phantom

9. ghostnoun

   A ghostwriter.

   Synonyms:
   spectre, revenant, suggestion, spook, soul, spark, haint, ghostwriter, glimmer, phantom, glimpse, hint, specter, wraith, spirit, inkling, glimmering, apparition

10. ghostnoun

    A nature spirit, ancestor or house spirit (see brownie ) revered in Heathenry.

    Before all else, we speak to the land to the ghosts and spirits of this place known to many as pixies, fairies, brownies, or elfs. (Math Jones)

    Synonyms:
    glimmer, wraith, suggestion, spirit, spectre, specter, hint, spook, revenant, glimpse, haint, apparition, soul, phantom, glimmering, ghostwriter, inkling, spark

11. ghostnoun

    An unresponsive user on IRC, resulting from the user’s client disconnecting without notifying the server.

    Synonyms:
    soul, revenant, spirit, inkling, apparition, haint, ghostwriter, wraith, hint, glimmer, spook, glimmering, glimpse, specter, phantom, suggestion, spectre, spark

12. ghostnoun

    an image of a file or hard disk.

    Synonyms:
    specter, glimpse, spark, glimmer, soul, suggestion, spirit, revenant, phantom, glimmering, haint, wraith, ghostwriter, inkling, spook, spectre, hint, apparition

Princeton’s WordNetRate these synonyms:2.5 / 2 votes

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, specter, tincture, ghostwriter, tint, nicety, apparition, trace, phantasm, tad, spectre, spook, subtlety, tone, creep, fantasm, refinement

2. ghostwriter, ghostnoun

   a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else

   Synonyms:
   ghostwriter, trace, touch, shade, specter, spook, wraith, spectre

3. ghostnoun

   the visible disembodied soul of a dead person

   Synonyms:
   ghostwriter, trace, touch, shade, specter, spook, wraith, spectre

4. touch, trace, ghostverb

   a suggestion of some quality

   «there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone»; «he detected a ghost of a smile on her face»

   Synonyms:
   ghostwriter, jot, wraith, cutaneous senses, shade, touch sensation, tactual sensation, touch modality, touching, specter, shadow, signature, sense of touch, skin senses, tincture, soupcon, touch, speck, hint, trace, feeling, pinch, vestige, spectre, spook, mite, tinge, tracing, spot, tactile sensation, contact, suggestion

5. ghostverb

   move like a ghost

   «The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard»

   Synonyms:
   ghostwrite, obsess, haunt

6. haunt, obsess, ghostverb

   haunt like a ghost; pursue

   «Fear of illness haunts her»

   Synonyms:
   frequent, ghostwrite, stalk, obsess, haunt

7. ghost, ghostwriteverb

   write for someone else

   «How many books have you ghostwritten so far?»

   Synonyms:
   ghostwrite, obsess, haunt

Matched Categories

1. • Author
   • Authorship
   • Move
   • Soul
   • Writer

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. goste

   old english spelling.

   Submitted by anonymous on January 17, 2021  

2. haint

   an invisible, dead person or spirit

   alaina claimed she had seen a ghost in her bedroom, but the police officer thought she was hallucinating.

   Submitted by rinat on June 13, 2016  

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for «ghost»:

   phantom, ghosts, spectre, baneling, ghostbusters, specter, spook, bogey, shadow, apparition, spirit

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How to use ghost in a sentence?

1. The FARC:

   Paramilitarism is no ghost invoked by the insurgency.

2. Steve Maraboli:

   Do not let your TODAY be stolen by the ghost of yesterday or the «To-Do» list of tomorrow!»

3. Grace Murray Hopper:

   if you want my ghost just say ‘ we’ve always done it that way.’ and I will haunt you for 24 hours.

4. Cathrine Ertmann:

   But in all of this I also saw a peace and beauty, sometimes the scare is in the brief look at something. Like when you watch a horror movie, you only see a glimpse of the ghost, murderer or monster and your imagination works all the fright up for you. I think I felt I need to see everything to make it ‘normal’ and undramatic. And I think it works the same way with our relation to death in general.

5. Hoshiyar Zebari:

   Definitely there has to be checks and balances. All the formations have to be reviewed in terms of the numbers. There should be no ghost members of the military, people should be accountable. Your battalion, the number of your members should be accounted for, for weapons or salaries, for munitions for food. These are basic things it doesn’t need a genius (to understand).

• روح, خيال, طيف, شبح, شَبَح, زولArabic
• зданьBelarusian
• duchCzech
• genfærd, draug, sjæl, spøgelse, genganger, gespenst, åndDanish
• Erscheinung, Schatten, Geist, Phantom, Spuk, GespenstGerman
• φάντασμα, σκιάGreek
• fantomoEsperanto
• espíritu, aparecido, sombra, alma, fantasma, espectro, apariciónSpanish
• شبحPersian
• haamu, aave, haamukuva, henki, sielu, kangastus, kummitusFinnish
• andi, spøkilsi, dreygurFaroese
• fantôme, revenant, spectre, esprit, apparition, fantasmeFrench
• spoekWestern Frisian
• taibhseIrish
• scaanjoon, scaa, scaanManx
• רוח רפאיםHebrew
• भूतHindi
• szellemHungarian
• ուրվական, հոգիArmenian
• hantu, polong, roh, dedemitan, momokIndonesian
• lemure, fantasma, spettro, apparizione, ombra, simulacro, fantasima, spirito, larva, animaItalian
• רוּחַHebrew
• 化け物, お化け, 怨霊, 魂魄, 妖魔, 変化, 物の怪, 死霊, 妖怪, 幽鬼, 精霊, 魂, 霊, ゴースト, 幽霊, 亡霊Japanese
• ខ្មោចKhmer
• ಪ್ರೇತKannada
• 유령Korean
• sanctusLatin
• hantuMalay
• gespens, geest, spook, verschijning, schim, spooksel, fantoomDutch
• spøkelseNorwegian
• chʼį́įdiiNavajo, Navaho
• duchPolish
• aventesma, avejão, simulacro, fantasma, sombra, alma, espírito, abantesma, abentesma, lêmure, larva, aparição, assombração, espectro, avantesmaPortuguese
• spiert, spértRomansh
• fantomăRomanian
• фанто́м, привиде́ние, при́зрак, призракRussian
• fantazmë, lugat, gogolAlbanian
• spSwedish
• பேய்Tamil
• దెయ్యంTelugu
• ผีThai
• hayaletTurkish
• прима́ра, ма́рево, ма́ра, приви́д, фанто́м, привидUkrainian
• گھوسٹUrdu
• maVietnamese
• גייַסטYiddish
• 鬼Chinese

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