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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1. Paulo Pinheiro:

   Nearly every surviving detainee has emerged from custody having suffered unimaginable abuses, for ordinary Syrians, the specter of arrest or abduction, and the near-inevitable horrors that follow, have paralyzed communities across the country.

2. 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.

3. Gennadiy Goldberg:

   For the most part, the specter of trade wars is still really weighing on risk here and that's what's keeping Treasuries better bid.

4. 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.

5. Halil Karaveli:

   He seems to have scared Davutoglu into toeing his line by raising the specter of his man Binali Yildirim contesting the leadership.