spook
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
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- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
Types & categories
- unpleasant person hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action
The noise spooked the horse
Types & categories
- fright hypernym
Related & opposite
- ghost derivation
Sense 3 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 | mouse |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | creepy |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | unpleasant person |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | ghost |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | fright |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | obsess |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | spook |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | phantom |