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Synonyms for spook
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Princeton's WordNet
creep, weirdo, weirdie, weirdy, spooknoun
someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
Synonyms:
wraith, creep, shade, specter, weirdie, ghost, loony, weirdo, nutcase, looney, spectre, crawling, crazy, weirdy, creeping, crawlghost, shade, spook, wraith, specter, spectreverb
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, ghost, tincture, ghostwriter, tint, nicety, apparition, trace, phantasm, tad, spectre, subtlety, tone, creep, fantasm, refinementspookverb
frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action
"The noise spooked the horse"
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#2192 | touch | |
#3304 | crazy | |
#3680 | spy | |
#4082 | tone | |
#4692 | ghost | |
#5503 | trace | |
#8025 | shade | |
#9683 | phantom | |
#13901 | scare | |
#14216 | crawl | |
#16448 | refinement | |
#18621 | creep | |
#18886 | tad | |
#20266 | looney | |
#22481 | crawling | |
#24573 | specter | |
#25431 | tint | |
#26337 | creeping | |
#27757 | spectre | |
#37939 | nuance | |
#43167 | frighten | |
#43191 | subtlety | |
#44415 | wraith | |
#48948 | shiner | |
#50492 | apparition | |
#50705 | weirdo | |
#51175 | loony | |
#51312 | spook | |
#51887 | tincture | |
#68351 | startle | |
#73055 | phantasm | |
#99861 | nutcase | |
#103984 | ghostwriter | |
#182397 | nicety |
How to use spook in a sentence?
Anything that comes on Twitter is just really noise, I don't think you can use that as an official medium to make global policies, but certainly it's enough to spook the stocks into the weekend. It's a space people will be trying to avoid until the dust settles.
Commissioner Michael S. Piwowar:
The rules will spin a complex web of provisions and requirements for compliance. I fear that many traps for the unwary are hidden in the regulations, creating potential nightmares for small business owners that fail to place regulatory compliance at the top of their business plans, such burdens will spook many small businesses from pursuing crowdfunding as a viable path to raising capital.
This development will surely spook bank purchasers who have become an increasing part of the company’s funding base, further frustrate the investment community, and ultimately result in stricter scrutiny from both federal and state regulators.
There is still too much uncertainty in the markets and investors would be watching developments in Greece and China very carefully before jumping in, chinese authorities wouldn't want to trigger a meltdown which would spook investors and we may see more market stabilising measures on the way.
Ralph Ellison, "The Invisible Man":
I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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- شبحArabic
- GespenstGerman
- espectroSpanish
- ترساندنPersian
- haamuFinnish
- bamboulaFrench
- խփեցArmenian
- spettroItalian
- רוּחַHebrew
- taipōMāori
- spion, kabouter, neger, schijnsel, spook, verspieder, geestDutch
- SpookNorwegian
- пугать, вспугивать, призрак, ниггер, шпионRussian
- spöke, osalig andeSwedish
- پھینک دیاUrdu
- spookYiddish
- 惊吓Chinese
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