Synonyms of specters

specters

noun

variants or spectres

plural of specter

as in apparitions

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

feeling so terrified that every shadow became a specter

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of specters

See-through specters haunt the backstage area of the Muppet theater, a Muppet News report warns of man-eating furniture, and Kermit turns the tables on Price during a long talk about acting by sprouting fangs and biting the horror icon’s neck. — Damon Wise, Deadline, 13 June 2026

African diasporic people’s contentious history with these formations of motherhood create specters of separation as reproductive injustice. — Literary Hub, 8 June 2026

Ever the sassy songwriter, Musgraves handles these specters like a pro with witty write-offs. — Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 30 Apr. 2026

Spectres are haunting the New York City Ballet—the spectres of kings and emperors. — Jennifer Homans, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026

Skeletal specters emerge as a consequence of tampering with such dark magic, and one launches itself at McAdams' Christine Palmer. — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Jan. 2026

San Francisco’s iconic fog also contributes to optical effects, like fog bows and brocken spectres, which are rainbows around a viewer’s shadow. — Newsroom Meteorologist, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Jan. 2026

The Duffers have always worn their influences with pride, and the specters of Steven Spielberg and Stephen King helped jump-start the series into a phenomenon. — Alison Herman, Variety, 27 Nov. 2025

The ground of the cemetery opens up beneath them, and specters rise into the air. — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2025