Synonyms 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

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

   Antonyms:
   body, animal, organism

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  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ghostnoun

   Synonyms:
   spirit, soul

2. ghostnoun

   Synonyms:
   apparition, spectre, sprite, phantom, shade, GOBLIN, hobgoblin

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1. ghostnoun

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "ghost":

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

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1. List of known nicknames for "Ghost":

   Carlton Hilton, Carlton Hylton

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

1. ghost

   Synonyms:
   Haematology Erythrocyte ghost, ghost cell

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1. Hoshiyar Zebari:

   Definitely we will recommend strongly that there should be some serious deep-rooted reforms in the military security establishment to fight corruption, mismanagement, but at the same time, the military has to be cleaned of all these numbers, figures of ghost soldiers and other mismanagement.

2. Wallace Chan:

   It is a sacred thing to create a face, it's like a ghost appearing in the gem as you work. The dialogue of gemstone, color and light gives it life.

3. Kedar Joshi:

   History is like a ghost. It is as dead as alive.

4. Hunter S. Thompson:

   A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums.

5. Finance Minister Hoshiyar Zebari:

   The military has to be cleaned of all these numbers, figures of ghost soldiers and other mismanagement.