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Synonyms & Antonyms of phantom
(Entry 1 of 2)
not real and existing only in the imagination
- the company claimed that the only hazards involving its product were the phantom dangers created by consumer groups
Synonyms for phantom
- 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
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phantom
nounSynonyms of phantom (Entry 2 of 2)
the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people
- Halloween is supposed to be a time when phantoms return to walk among us
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