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ghost

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of ghost

1 the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people

  • looked for ghosts in the graveyard on Halloween
Synonyms of ghost

apparition, bogey (also bogie), familiar spirit, hant [dialect], haunt [chiefly dialect], materialization, phantasm (also fantasm), phantom, poltergeist, shade, shadow, specter (or spectre), spirit, spook, sprite, vision, visitant, wraith
Words Related to ghost

angel, daimon, familiar, genie, genius, jinni (or jinn), shaitan

double, doppelgänger (or doppelganger), fetch

lemures, manes

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

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

2 the smallest amount or part imaginable

  • she may be a good endurance runner, but she doesn't stand a ghost of a chance of winning in a sprint
Synonyms of ghost

beans, bubkes (also bupkes), continental, damn, darn (also durn), diddly [slang], diddly-squat [slang], doodley-squat (or doodly-squat), fig, hoot, iota, jot, lick, modicum, rap, squat [slang], syllable, tittle, whit, whoop
Words Related to ghost

ace, bit, crumb, dab, driblet, glimmer, hint, little, mite, nip, ounce, particle, peanuts, pin, ray, scrap, scruple, semblance, shade, shadow, shred, skosh, smidgen (also smidgeon), snap, speck, spot, sprinkling, strain, streak, suspicion, touch, trace

3 a tiny often physical indication of something lost or vanished

  • the down-at-the-heels town house is but a ghost of the neighborhood's former grandeur
Synonyms of ghost

echo, relic, shadow, trace, vestige
Words Related to ghost

memento, remembrance, reminder

artifact

afterimage, aftertaste

balance, corpse, hangover, leftover, oddment, remainder, remnant, scrap

dreg(s), leavings, remain(s), residual, residue, rest

4 an evil spirit

  • the vengeful ghosts of seamen who were deliberately shipwrecked upon these shores
Synonyms of ghost

cacodemon, demon (or daemon), devil, fiend, ghoul, ghoulie, imp, shaitan
Words Related to ghost

hag [archaic], lamia, vampire

incubus, nightmare, succubus

afreet (or afrit), genie, jinni (or jinn)

apparition, banshee, bogey (also bogie), bugbear, familiar, familiar spirit, genius, phantasm (also fantasm), phantom, poltergeist, shade, shadow, specter (or spectre), spirit, spook, vision, wraith

brownie, dwarf, elf, faerie (also faery), fairy, fay, gnome, goblin, gremlin, hobgoblin, kobold, leprechaun, pixie (also pixy), puck, sprite, troll

monster, ogre
Near Antonyms of ghost

angel

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