wraithlike

adjective

as in disembodied

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Recent Examples of wraithlike The flakes were slow and voluptuous, and already the wraithlike branches outside the window were fattening with white. — Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026 But no matter how strong Carmen becomes, her destiny — embodied by a wraithlike old woman who turns up whenever the orchestra plays Bizet’s 10-note fate motif — is predetermined. — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wraithlike
  1. disembodied
  2. ghostly
  3. bodiless
  4. incorporeal
  5. ghostlike
  6. spiritual
  7. spectral
  8. formless
Adjective
  • As Wired reported, glitches can happen when workers move too quickly, including disembodied hands obscuring pages.
    — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 12 Aug. 2026
  • But all that data ingestion has mostly enhanced disembodied AI.
    — Michael Ashley, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
Definition of disembodied
Adjective
  • When Lydia’s sister, Claudine, becomes Odette’s new stepmother, a ghostly presence emerges in the house — spurring a story about grief and motherhood.
    — Chloe Gong, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Detectors are becoming so large and so sensitive that they will soon be swamped with other ghostly particles called neutrinos that are generated in the sun and in Earth’s atmosphere.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of ghostly
Adjective
  • The important things are often bodiless.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026
  • That the bodiless voice of Captain Kafetzis was now coming to me live from above my proprietary Cashmere mattress indicated the obvious seriousness of what had happened in the night.
    — Lauren Oyler, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
Definition of bodiless
Adjective
  • Followers of the Abrahamic religions are supposed to treat God as immaterial and incorporeal, yet these early Yahweh worshippers imagined him as fully embodied.
    — Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Positioned as a large-scale genre event, the series updates the legendary SFX property with a contemporary political and social edge, with Shun Oguri leading the cast as a detective hunting a seemingly incorporeal killer.
    — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 27 Jan. 2026
Definition of incorporeal
Adjective
  • Diners have toasted to him ever since, trading stories of feeling ghostlike brushes along their legs during Lowcountry meals.
    — Chelsea Brasted, Southern Living, 12 Mar. 2026
Definition of ghostlike
Adjective
  • But to say that Real Housewives lives in the same spiritual neighborhood as Big Little Lies, White Lotus, Girls Trip, and The Substance better captures the drama, the comedy, and the eternal fight against aging.
    — Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026
  • For decades, metaphysical stores and botanicas have sold religious items and offered spiritual cleansings and readings in spite of stigmatization and gentrification.
    — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of spiritual
Adjective
  • This is where spectral imaging and vision systems monitor shade variations and print registration in real time across the full width of the fabric roll, ensuring dye uniformity from batch to batch.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 27 Aug. 2026
  • But Roman's spectral studies will have lower resolution over a large area, while Hubble's has higher resolution over a small area.
    — Monisha Ravisetti, Space.com, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of spectral
Adjective
  • Musicians have long sought to give form to the formless, unconstrained yet palatable, inspirational and divine.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 21 July 2026
  • Without training in how to respond to it, a threat can feel not just frightening but formless, something to be endured rather than navigated.
    — Andrei Popoviciu, The Dial, 21 July 2026
Definition of formless

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“Wraithlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wraithlike. Accessed 8 Sep. 2026.

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