WRAITHLIKE Synonyms: 116 Similar and Opposite Words

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

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Adjective

Liu’s Met commission, with its disembodied hands, its severing and suturing of the organic and the mechanical, may be a metaphor for a civilization detached from its foundations and coming to its end.

— Lavender Au, ARTnews.com, 21 Sep. 2026
Wilson is our Virgil, guiding us physically and emotionally via disembodied voiceover.

— Lila Allen, Architectural Digest, 18 Sep. 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

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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

Could Kleist’s conjecture provide a key to their seeming vacancy, their resignation, their helplessness, suggesting that in their benighted condition lies spiritual perfection?

— Matthew McLean, Artforum, 22 Sep. 2026
The novel seems poised to address the spiritual effect of competitive private schooling on the Kohs’ inner lives as well as the sociopolitics of education.

— Sanjena Sathian, Vulture, 22 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

Inevitably, much of that knowledge was still undigested and poorly sorted; as a result the planet, viewed from Europe, must have seemed a rather impressionistic and formless place.

— Ian Tattersall, The New York Review of Books, 19 Sep. 2026
Musicians have long sought to give form to the formless, unconstrained yet palatable, inspirational and divine.

— Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 21 July 2026

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