Synonyms for wraith

Grammar : Noun

Spell : reyth

Phonetic Transcription : reɪθ

Définition of wraith

Origin : 1510s, "ghost," Scottish, of uncertain origin. Weekley suggests Old Norse vorðr "guardian" in the sense of "guardian angel." Klein points to Gaelic and Irish arrach "specter, apparition."

noun ghost

Example sentences :

In the strange illumination of the search beams he seemed the wraith of a scarecrow.
Extract from : « Slaves of Mercury » by Nat Schachner

Across the stair she wavered, a wraith blown across the gulf of time.
Extract from : « Melomaniacs » by James Huneker

They had him, but it was like getting hold of an apparition, a wraith, a portent.
Extract from : « Lord Jim » by Joseph Conrad

Was she a woman or a wraith, this slender thing swaying in the candle-light?
Extract from : « Glory of Youth » by Temple Bailey

This apparition of a friend has in the Scotch wraith, or Irish fetch its counterpart.
Extract from : « Welsh Folk-Lore » by Elias Owen

Sometimes he smiled at her; sometimes at the wraith in the rafters.
Extract from : « The Secret of the Storm Country » by Grace Miller White

How could this wraith, this apparition, do us physical injury!
Extract from : « The White Invaders » by Raymond King Cummings

A wraith of Tako was there, stricken as though numbed by surprise….
Extract from : « The White Invaders » by Raymond King Cummings

I think it was the image of my robust self as a wraith that did it.
Extract from : « The Friendly Road » by (AKA David Grayson) Ray Stannard Baker

He was not a wraith, no grisly spectre, no half-nebulous Shape.
Extract from : « The Return of Peter Grimm » by David Belasco

Antonyms for wraith

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