Synonyms for wraithlike
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : reyth |
Phonetic Transcription : reɪθ |
Top 10 synonyms for wraithlike Other synonyms for the word wraithlike
- abhorrent
- aerial
- airy
- anemic
- apparitional
- ashen
- asomatous
- bloodless
- bodiless
- cadaverous
- celestial
- concealed
- corpselike
- covert
- deathlike
- deceptive
- dim
- disbodied
- discarnate
- disembodied
- disguised
- disgusting
- divine
- dreamlike
- dreamy
- eidolic
- ethereal
- faint
- funereal
- gaseous
- ghostlike
- ghostly
- haggard
- haunted
- heavenly
- hideous
- holy
- horrendous
- horrible
- horrid
- ideal
- illusory
- impalpable
- imperceptible
- imponderable
- inappreciable
- inconspicuous
- incorporate
- incorporeal
- indiscernible
- infinitesimal
- insensible
- insubstantial
- intangible
- livid
- loathsome
- lurid
- macabre
- masked
- metaphysical
- microscopic
- mortuary
- nauseating
- nonmaterial
- nonphysical
- not in sight
- obliterated
- obscured
- occult
- offensive
- out of sight
- pale
- pallid
- perdu
- phantasmal
- phantom
- psychic
- repellent
- repulsive
- scary
- screened
- sepulchral
- shadowy
- shocking
- sickening
- spectral
- spiritlike
- spiritual
- subjective
- supernatural
- terrible
- terrifying
- ulterior
- unapparent
- unbodied
- uncanny
- uncorporal
- undisclosed
- unearthly
- unembodied
- unfleshly
- ungraspable
- unnatural
- unnoticeable
- unobservable
- unperceivable
- unpleasant
- unreal
- unseeable
- unseen
- unsubstantial
- unviewable
- unworldly
- vampiric
- vaporous
- veiled
- wan
- weak
- weird
- wraithlike
- wraithy
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
- 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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