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phantom

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of phantom

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 of 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
Words Related to phantom

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
Near Antonyms of phantom

authentic, genuine, true

factual, verifiable, verified

believable, convincing, realistic

corporeal, material, physical, solid, substantial

palpable, tangible
Antonyms of phantom

actual, existent, existing, real

phantom

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of phantom

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
Synonyms of phantom

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

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

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