Antonyms for ghost
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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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ghost

   Antonyms:
   body, animal, organism

   Synonyms:
   spectre, apparition, spirit, vision, shade, phantom

Matched Categories

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

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms: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

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1. ghostnoun

   Synonyms:
   shade, phantom, apparition, spectre, spook, revenant, sprite, wraith, spirit

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. ghost

   Synonyms:
   Haematology Erythrocyte ghost, ghost cell

How to use ghost in a sentence?

1. Laurence McCook:

   It's called ghost gear because it goes on living and creating problems long after it's actually useful.

2. Patrick Stefano:

   These ghost teachers receive taxpayer-funded salaries, health benefits and pensions, yet they may never return to the classroom or engage in actual teaching, this should not be allowed or tolerated because it is a blatant misuse of taxpayer dollars and drains money and resources away from our classrooms and our students.

3. Jace Young:

   We were having a district attorney who was more worried about suing the manufacturers … and not about finding a more hands-on approach to dealing with the individuals that were actually caught with firearms, whether they were untraceable ghost guns or if they were traceable guns.

4. Anthony Burgess:

   All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.

5. Wisdom kdw:

   Become a ghost. Forget the attention. Just hustle.

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