Phantom \Phan"tom\, n. [OE. fantome, fantosme, fantesme, OF.
fant[^o]me, fr. L. phantasma, Gr. fa`ntasma, fr. fai`nein to
show. See Fancy, and cf.
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Phantom \Phan"tom\, a.
Being, or of the nature of, a phantom.
Phantom isles are floating in the skies. --B. Taylor.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
phantom
adj : something apparently sensed but having no physical reality;
"seemed to hear faint phantom bells"; "the amputee's
illusion of a phantom limb"
n 1: a ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the
apparition that confronted us" [syn: apparition, phantasm,
phantasma, specter, spectre]
2: something existing in perception only; "a ghostly apparition
at midnight" [syn: apparition, phantasm, phantasma,
shadow]
WordNet (r) 2.0
200 Moby Thesaurus words for "phantom":
Barmecidal, Barmecide, Dracula, Frankenstein, Masan, Wolf-man, air,
airy, airy nothing, apparent, apparition, apparitional, appearance,
asomatous, astral, astral spirit, autistic, banshee, bodiless,
bogey, bogeyman, brainchild, bubble, bugaboo, bugbear, chimaera,
chimera, chimeric, control, decarnate, decarnated, deceptive,
delirium, delusion, delusional, delusionary, delusive, delusory,
departed spirit, dereistic, discarnate, disembodied,
disembodied spirit, dreamlike, dreamy, duppy, dybbuk, ectoplasmic,
eidolon, erroneous, ether, ethereal, etheric, extramundane,
fallacious, false, false image, fancy, fantasque, fantastic,
fantasy, fee-faw-fum, fiction, figment, figure, form, frightener,
ghost, ghostish, ghostlike, ghostly, ghosty, ghoul, grateful dead,
guide, hallucination, hant, haunt, hobgoblin, holy terror, horror,
idle fancy, idolum, illusion, illusional, illusionary, illusive,
illusory, image, imagery, imaginary, imagination, imagining,
immaterial, immateriality, impalpable, imponderable, incorporate,
incorporeal, incorporeal being, incorporeity, incubus,
insubstantial, insubstantial image, intangible, invention, larva,
lemures, maggot, make-believe, manes, materialization, mirage,
misleading, mist, monster, myth, nightmare, nonmaterial,
nonphysical, occult, ogre, ogress, oni, ostensible, otherworldly,
phantasm, phantasma, phantasmagoria, phantasmagoric, phantasmal,
phantasmic, phantomic, phantomlike, phasm, phenomenon, poltergeist,
presence, psychic, revenant, romance, scarebabe, scarecrow, scarer,
seeming, self-deceptive, self-deluding, shade, shadow, shadowy,
shape, shrouded spirit, sick fancy, smoke, specious, specter,
specterlike, spectral, spectral ghost, spectrum, spirit, spiritual,
spook, sprite, succubus, supernatural, supposititious, terror,
theophany, thick-coming fancies, thin air, transmundane, trip,
unactual, unearthly, unembodied, unextended, unfleshly, unfounded,
unphysical, unreal, unsubstantial, unsubstantiality, unworldly,
vampire, vapor, vision, visionary, waking dream, walking dead man,
wandering soul, werewolf, whim, whimsy, wildest dream,
wildest dreams, wraith, wraithlike, wraithy, zombie
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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