Synonyms for apparition
Definitions
- n. 1
An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; especially, one by a ghost, phantom, or suchlike; the entity itself.
The region's economy is buoyed by tourism driven by past apparitions of the Virgin Mary.
Related words
- Word family
- apparitional apparent appearance
Forms
- Plural
- apparitions → ghosts, phantoms, spectres, phantasms…
Example sentences
- phantom The Phantom slowly, gravely, silently, approached.
- spectre A spectre haunts Europe: the spectre of communism.
By length
- 5 letters
- ghost1, shade1, spook1
- 6 letters
- spirit2, vision2, shadow2, sprite1, wraith
- 7 letters
- phantom2, spectre2, specter2, chimera3, fantasm
- 8 letters
- illusion3, revenant, phantasm3
- 10 letters
- appearance3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (spirit2 = 2 syllables).