Thesaurus
:
ghost
T
hesaurus
ghost
English
Noun
Sense: a disembodied spirit appearing after death
Synonyms
apparition
barghest
duppy
eidolon
empuse
(
obsolete
)
ghost
haint
haunt
jumbie
phantom
poltergeist
revenant
shade
specter
spectre
spirit
[
⇒ thesaurus
]
spook
sprite
visitant
wraith
Hypernyms
being
spirit
[
⇒ thesaurus
]
Various
bogeyman
demon
[
⇒ thesaurus
]
ghoul
zombie
See also
Thesaurus:ignore
Thesaurus:ghostly
Thesaurus:monstrous
Further reading
“
980. demon
” in
Roget's Thesaurus
, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
“
ghost
” in
Moby Thesaurus II
, Grady Ward, 1996.