Antonyms for specter
ˈspɛk tərspecter

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1. • Apparition
   • Spirit

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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

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1. specternoun

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

How to use specter in a sentence?

1. 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.

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. 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.

4. Benigno Aquino on Friday:

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

5. Jesse M. Furman:

   ‘specter’ of something purely hypothetical plainly does not warrant an adjournment.

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