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spectre /ˈspɛktə /(US specter) noun1A ghost: a dread of spectres and witches affected every aspect of daily life...- Only when memory is, like the narrator's in Kesey's novel, sufficiently dim, do the dead appear as specters and ghosts.
- He believes the spectre is the ghost of Pte Crowley, of the 11th North Devonshire Regiment.
- In curing speech of specters and ghosts, analytical philosophy claims to cleanse the mind of a dreamy fondness for every sort of idealism, vitalism, Platonism, and transcendentalism.
Synonyms ghost, phantom, apparition, spirit, wraith, shadow, presence, illusion; Scottish & Irish bodach; German doppelgänger; West Indian duppy informal spook literary phantasm, shade, revenant, wight rare eidolon, manes 1.1Something widely feared as a possible unpleasant or dangerous occurrence: the spectre of nuclear holocaust...- Lately she's been thinking a lot about selling her home to break free from debt, because she fears the specter of foreclosure every day.
- Our world has changed; we must adjust our living habits as necessary to address the increased danger that the specter of terrorism brings.
- It also raises the specter of a dangerous shift toward protectionism.
Synonyms threat, menace, shadow, cloud, vision; prospect; danger, peril, fear, dread Origin Early 17th century: from French spectre or Latin spectrum (see spectrum). |