Synonyms of ghosts

ghosts 1 of 2

noun

plural of ghost

1

as in spirits

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

looked for ghosts in the graveyard on Halloween

Synonyms & Similar Words

• spirits
• apparitions
• shadows
• haunts
• phantoms
• visions
• specters
• wraiths
• poltergeists
• vampires
• zombies
• spooks
• demons
• angels
• materializations
• phantasms
• sprites
• ghouls
• shades
• familiar spirits
• visitants
• bogeys
• hants
• genies
• familiars
• daimones
• jinn
• devils
• doubles
• doppelgängers
• manes
• succubi
• incubi
• lemures
• imps
• fetches
• geniuses
• shaitans
• fiends
• cacodemons
• lamiae

2

as in damns

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 & Similar Words

• damns
• hoots
• licks
• whits
• little
• figs
• shadows
• syllables
• beans
• raps
• bits
• continentals
• whoops
• particles
• specks
• squats
• diddly-squats
• hints
• darns
• diddlies
• jots
• iotas
• touches
• modicums
• suspicions
• doodley-squats
• rays
• glimmers
• tittles
• traces
• pins
• mites
• scruples
• ounces
• semblances
• peanuts
• shades
• scraps
• streaks
• shreds
• sprinklings
• crumbs
• spots
• strains
• driblets
• nips
• aces
• smidgens
• dabs
• skoshes
• snaps

3

as in relics

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 & Similar Words

• relics
• traces
• shadows
• remnants
• echoes
• artifacts
• vestiges
• reminders
• corpses
• mementos
• remembrances
• remains
• hangovers
• leftovers
• residues
• remainders
• afterimages
• dregs
• scraps
• leavings
• balances
• residuals
• aftertastes
• rests
• oddments

4

as in demons

an evil spirit

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• demons
• ghouls
• devils
• vampires
• spirits
• nightmares
• wraiths
• fairies
• goblins
• imps
• elves
• genies
• ghoulies
• monsters
• shadows
• fiends
• banshees
• phantoms
• visions
• cacodemons
• apparitions
• specters
• trolls
• hags
• dwarfs
• poltergeists
• shaitans
• spooks
• pixies
• faeries
• succubi
• incubi
• pucks
• phantasms
• jinn
• gnomes
• familiars
• leprechauns
• gremlins
• shades
• sprites
• brownies
• familiar spirits
• hobgoblins
• bugbears
• ogres
• kobolds
• lamiae
• bogeys
• fays
• afreets
• geniuses

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• angels

ghosts

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of ghost

as in tiptoes

Related Words

• tiptoes
• pads
• edges
• worms
• creeps
• snakes
• inches
• crawls
• lurks
• steals
• slinks
• skulks
• sneaks
• mouses
• slides
• shirks
• pussyfoots
• mooches
• slips

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of ghosts

Noun

Tara Badstubner explores why recent ghosts are (actually) haunting us. — Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026

The video has so many of Taylor’s favorite tropes—weddings that turn into a mess, metaphorically breaking glass, red wine spilling, mad women, chatty ghosts, symbolic houses. — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2026

With Venus and Mercury both going retrograde in your 8th house, there’s reason to suspect that you’ll be visited by a lot of ghosts over these next few weeks. — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Sep. 2026

The Nathan Hale Homestead has had reports of ghosts roaming its grounds and in the house at night. — Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 25 Sep. 2026

Craft a miniature to add to Adam’s model town of Winter River, Connecticut, see ghosts at a science show, investigate sandworms on Titan, or visit Betelgeuse in the planetarium. — John Coffren, Baltimore Sun, 24 Sep. 2026

Mihail is sent there, 30 years after leaving his home country, to assess the value of the girl’s work and confront the ghosts of his past. — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 24 Sep. 2026

Last week’s season-six premiere of Slow Horses focused on the funeral of a major character, David Cartwright, whose tenure at MI5 was important enough to still rattle with ghosts and skeletons from the past. — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2026