phantom

Synonyms

apparition, bogey (also bogie), familiar spirit, ghost, materialization, phantasm (also fantasm), poltergeist, shade, shadow, specter (or spectre), spirit, spook, sprite, vision, visitant, wraith;

Related Words

angel, familiar, genie, genius, jinni (or jinn);

double, doppelgänger (or doppelganger), fetch;

incubus, lamia, succubus, vampire, zombie (also zombi);

demon (or daemon), devil, fiend, ghoul, imp;

Synonyms

chimerical (also chimeric), fabulous, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic (also fantastical), fictional, fictitious, ideal, imaginal, imaginary, imagined, invented, made-up, make-believe, mythical (or mythic), notional, phantasmal, phantasmic, pretend, unreal, visionary;

Antonyms

actual, existent, existing, real;

Near Antonyms

authentic, genuine, true;

factual, verifiable, verified;

believable, convincing, realistic;

corporeal, material, physical, solid, substantial;

palpable, tangible;

Related Words

fabled, legendary, romantic;

abstract, hypothetical, theoretical (also theoretic);

unbelievable, unconvincing, unlikely;

conceived, envisaged, envisioned, pictured, visualized;

daydreamlike, deceptive, delusional, delusive, hallucinatory, illusory, phantasmagoric (or phantasmagorical);

concocted, fabricated, feigned, fictive;

inexistent, nonexistent;