Synonyms for wraithlike

Grammar : Adj

Spell : reyth

Phonetic Transcription : reɪθ

Top 10 synonyms for wraithlike

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Définition of wraithlike

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."

As in invisible : adj unable to be seen; hidden
As in nonphysical : adj immaterial
As in unbodied : adj immaterial
As in uncorporal : adj immaterial
As in ghastly : adj horrifying, dreadful; pale
As in ghostly : adj spooky
As in immaterial : adj not existing in physical form

Example sentences :

He is a wraithlike double of Olivier, already able to reckon up all values.
Extract from : « Romain Rolland » by Stefan Zweig

The young moon shed only a wan and wraithlike radiance over the plain.
Extract from : « The Radio Boys on the Mexican Border » by Gerald Breckenridge

His body was so frail, so wraithlike, that one almost expected to see through it the magnificent tapestries on the walls.
Extract from : « The Story of a Pioneer » by Anna Howard Shaw

He called down maledictions on those two strange, impassive, wraithlike forms hardly more than half seen in the darkness and fog.
Extract from : « Darkness and Dawn » by George Allan England

But it is a wraithlike thing, and undulates and falls before our eyes like flames that have neither redness nor heat.
Extract from : « Musical Portraits » by Paul Rosenfeld

But it did not quite vanish; it held its wraithlike outlines, and in a moment began sliding silently backward.
Extract from : « The White Invaders » by Raymond King Cummings

He moved quickly in that direction, saw now a wraithlike figure in white.
Extract from : « Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 » by Various

Another second passed; it was visibly growing tenuous, wraithlike!
Extract from : « The White Invaders » by Raymond King Cummings

Here were associations almost living, they were so vivid, yet wraithlike in sheer removedness.
Extract from : « The Prisoner » by Alice Brown

Her dress flickered and flashed through the trees beside the track; it was a wraithlike streak in the twilight.
Extract from : « The Black Opal » by Katharine Susannah Prichard

Antonyms for wraithlike

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