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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
  • The disembodied voice of a Genius employee would have told him straightaway that, according to SAOT, the decision was close, but that Haaland was factually onside.
    — Graham Scott, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
  • As Wired reported, glitches can happen when workers move too quickly, including disembodied hands obscuring pages.
    — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of disembodied
Adjective
  • Lisa Robertson’s Riverwork draws on all these influences, and many more, to evoke overlapping Parises that chime with one another like a ghostly carillon.
    — Ange Mlinko, The New York Review of Books, 19 Sep. 2026
  • The street, still full of equipment and plastic water bottles, felt quiet and ghostly.
    — Sarah Shanfield, Vulture, 11 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
  • In the years since grit’s heyday, much of American culture has succumbed to a state of emotional and spiritual defeat.
    — Meghan O’Gieblyn, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Leadership continuously draws from a finite reserve of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual energy.
    — Dennis Volpe, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of spiritual
Adjective
  • The stairwell of the North Tower, or the five charred, spectral stories still standing, was being targeted for potential recoveries, and for good reason.
    — Peter Wilkinson, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The design uses spectral beam combining, which merges several fiber-laser beams into a single high-power output.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 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 22 Sep. 2026.

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