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Spectral synonyms

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phantom
Resembling, characteristic of, or being a phantom:
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  1. Resembling, characteristic of, or being a phantom:
  2. Being a phantom limb:
  3. Believed to be real even though illusory:
unearthly
Ridiculously unreasonable or uncustomary; absurd:
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  1. Ridiculously unreasonable or uncustomary; absurd:
  2. (Informal) Fantastic, outlandish, absurd, etc.
  3. Unnaturally strange and frightening.
ghostlike
Seemingly invisible; as a ghost, similar to a ghost.
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  1. Seemingly invisible; as a ghost, similar to a ghost.
cadaverous
Suggestive of death; corpselike:
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  1. Suggestive of death; corpselike:
  2. Emaciated; gaunt:
  3. Of or like a cadaver; esp., pale, ghastly, or gaunt and haggard
deadly
Extremely accurate; unerring:
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  1. Extremely accurate; unerring:
  2. Absolute; utter:
  3. Aiming or wanting to kill; implacable:
deathly
Of, resembling, or characteristic of death:
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  1. Of, resembling, or characteristic of death:
  2. Like or characteristic of death
ghastly
Horrible; frightful
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  1. Horrible; frightful
  2. Like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid; dismal.
  3. Causing shock, revulsion, or horror; terrifying:
ghostlike
Seemingly invisible; as a ghost, similar to a ghost.
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  1. Seemingly invisible; as a ghost, similar to a ghost.
ghostly
(Now Rare) Having to do with the soul or religion; spiritual
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  1. (Now Rare) Having to do with the soul or religion; spiritual
  2. Of or relating to the soul or spirit; spiritual.
  3. Of, like, or characteristic of a ghost; spectral
Find another word for spectral. In this page you can discover 13 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for spectral, like: phantom, unearthly, ghostlike, frightful, ghastly, cadaverous, deadly, deathlike, deathly, ghastly and ghostlike.

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  • C. Vogel published a modification of Secchi's scheme of stellar diversities, and gave it organic meaning by connecting spectral differences with advance in " age."

  • Before the moment when she saw the book, she hadn't wanted to connect the spectral figure of her mind with the very real man before her.

  • We cannot here do more than refer to the spectral type of the sun.

  • Man and the actual universe kept on reasserting their rights and claims, announcing their goodliness and delightfulness, in one way or another; but they were always being thrust back again into Cimmerian regions of abstractions, fictions, visions, spectral hopes and fears, in the midst of which the intellect somnambulistically moved upon an unknown way.

  • Some of the former are to be seen at the limb on most occasions; they may hang for days about the same place; they reach altitudes of which the average is perhaps 20,000 m., and show the spectral lines of hydrogen and helium.

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