spectre
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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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 noun
a mental representation of some haunting experience
he looked like he had seen a ghost
Types & categories
- phantom hypernym
Related & opposite
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 | derivation | Related & opposite | obsess |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | spook |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | phantom |