Synonyms of sprites

sprites

noun

plural of sprite

1

as in fairies

an imaginary being usually having a small human form and magical powers

the child insisted that he'd seen a sprite hiding in the garden

Synonyms & Similar Words

• fairies
• elves
• goblins
• dwarfs
• faeries
• pixies
• trolls
• gnomes
• brownies
• leprechauns
• gremlins
• fays
• pucks
• hobgoblins
• kobolds
• little people
• imps
• ghouls
• changelings
• nixies
• banshees
• ogres
• hags
• kelpies

2

as in spirits

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

told hair-raising stories of sprites and spectral ships

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of sprites

Weaving every movement together are barely perceptible particles that make your ears blink and double-take—bubbles, dolphin gurgles, memory chips fidgeting, sprites hiccuping. — Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 26 Oct. 2026

The renderer then uses the Neo Geo hardware to efficiently scale sprites into 16-pixel-wide strips, simulating the wall’s size and position in that column of the screen. — Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 13 July 2026

Seasonal sprites flit and flutter, providing transitional scenes, hinting at mystical elements whizzing all around within this otherwise very human plot. — Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2026

This livestream is well worth a watch, with active chat users often sharing timestamps of meteor sightings and occasionally rarer phenomena like atmospheric sprites! — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 21 Apr. 2026

On Friday, April 10, when those winged sprites took to the War Memorial Opera House stage for a seven-performance run, the whole tartan-and-gossamer fable felt more alive than ever. — Rachel Howard, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Apr. 2026

The video chip’s control registers, screen bitmaps, text-screen data, default and custom character sets, sprites, and color information all live in different locations scattered across memory, with some data actually living in separate RAM and ROM chips. — Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Sep. 2025