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ghost

noun

1 ghost

A mental representation of some haunting experience:
— He looked like he had seen a ghost.

synonyms: shade, specter, spectre, spook, wraith.

Roget 362: corpse, corse, carcass, cadaver, bones, skeleton, dry bones; defunct, relics, reliquiae [Lat.], remains, mortal remains, dust, ashes, ... show more

Roget 980: demon, daemon, demonry, demonology; evil genius, fiend, familiar, daeva, devil; bad spirit, unclean spirit; cacodemon, incubus, ... show more

Roget 593: booklet; writing, work, volume, tome, opuscule; tract, tractate; livret; brochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual, ... show more

Roget 443: dim sight, dull sight half sight, short sight, near sight, long sight, double sight, astigmatic sight, failing sight; dimsightedness &c.; purblindness, lippitude; myopia, presbyopia; ... show more

Roget 450: intellect, mind, understanding, reason, thinking principle; rationality; cogitative faculties, cognitive faculties, discursive faculties, reasoning faculties, intellectual faculties; faculties, senses, ... show more

Dutch: schim, geest, spook

2 ghost

A writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else.

synonym: ghostwriter.

Dutch: ghostwriter

3 ghost

The visible disembodied soul of a dead person.

Dutch: fantoom, geest, spook
Polish: cień, duch

4 ghost

A suggestion of some quality:
— He detected a ghost of a smile on her face.

synonyms: touch, trace.

Dutch: zweem

verb

1 ghost

Move like a ghost.

Dutch: rondspoken

2 ghost

Haunt like a ghost; pursue.

synonyms: haunt, obsess.

Dutch: rondspoken

3 ghost

Write for someone else:
— How many books have you ghostwritten so far?.

synonym: ghostwrite.


Moby thesaurus: Doppelganger, Dracula, Frankenstein, Masan, Wolf-man, act for, advertising writer, agent, alternate, alternative, analogy, annalist, apparition, appearance, art critic, astral, astral spirit, author, authoress, backup ... show more.

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