phantom
or fan·tom
an apparition or specter.
an appearance or illusion without material substance, as a dream image, mirage, or optical illusion.
a person or thing of merely illusory power, status, efficacy, etc.: the phantom of fear.
an illustration, part of which is given a transparent effect so as to permit representation of details otherwise hidden from view, as the inner workings of a mechanical device.
of, relating to, or of the nature of a phantom; illusory: a phantom sea serpent.
Electricity. noting or pertaining to a phantom circuit.
named, included, or recorded but nonexistent; fictitious: Payroll checks were made out and cashed for phantom employees.
Origin of phantom
1synonym study For phantom
Other words for phantom
Opposites for phantom
Other words from phantom
- phan·tom·like, adjective
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How to use phantom in a sentence
The Turks fielded the oldest equipment on view – F-4 Phantoms of the Vietnam War era.
Phantoms On the Bookshelves by Jacques Bonnet Bonnet owns more than 40,000 books.
8 Great Books About Books: ‘Phantoms On the Bookshelves’ & More | Michele Filgate | July 19, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe phantoms of the title are di Giovanni and the man who became her husband, a French war photographer named Bruno Girodon.
We went wandering through Biblical deserts in search of haunting phantoms, like cursed.
Female characters are at the heart of many of his novels, as phantoms and objects of abject devotion.
The plank was carefully hidden so as to serve for their return, and the three men glided through the darkness like phantoms.
The Border Rifles | Gustave AimardThe baby wakes me up in the night and I lie for hours—it is at such times that these phantoms take hold of me.
Love's Pilgrimage | Upton SinclairIt is easy to imagine the strange number of legends about sorcerers and phantoms which are current in North America.
The Border Rifles | Gustave AimardLet your courage then revive, and fear not to examine with perfect composure the phantoms which alarm you.
Letters To Eugenia | Paul Henri Thiry HolbachYou will pardon me for having dissipated the unreal and yet harassing phantoms which infested your mind.
Letters To Eugenia | Paul Henri Thiry Holbach
British Dictionary definitions for phantom
/ (ˈfæntəm) /
an apparition or spectre
(as modifier): a phantom army marching through the sky
the visible representation of something abstract, esp as appearing in a dream or hallucination: phantoms of evil haunted his sleep
something apparently unpleasant or horrific that has no material form
med another name for manikin (def. 2b)
Origin of phantom
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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