phantom
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a ghostly appearing figure
we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us
Types & categories
- disembodied spirit hypernym
- Flying Dutchman hyponym
Related & opposite
- apparitional derivation
Sense 2 adjective
something apparently sensed but having no physical reality
seemed to hear faint phantom bells
Related & opposite
- unreal similar to
Sense 3 noun
something existing in perception only
a ghostly apparition at midnight
Types & categories
- illusion hypernym
- unidentified flying object hyponym
- Flying Dutchman hyponym
- ghost hyponym
Related & opposite
- wraithlike derivation
- apparitional derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | apparitional |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | disembodied spirit |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | Flying Dutchman |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | unreal |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | wraithlike |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | apparitional |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | illusion |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | unidentified flying object |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | Flying Dutchman |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | ghost |