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spectral

adjective as in ghostly

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Example Sentences

But Kasich and Walker face competitive re-elections; their national presence is spectral, their national potential speculative.

Where the Austin building is nuanced and almost spectral, Bakersfield is all verve and gesture.

What a spectral and exaggerated shape all things take in her scared and over-excited gaze!

Even as I looked I saw the features of a human countenance—and yet not human either, so spectral was it, so unreal and strange.

Our fellows were being hard beset to hold on to what they had won; there, where the horizon stood out with spectral luminosity.

Spectral shapes issue forth suddenly, and return as suddenly into the deep shade.

Mist floated upward from marsh and lake; and through it the spectral palms loomed, drooping fronds embroidered with dew.

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On this page you'll find 40 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to spectral, such as: eerie, shadowy, apparitional, haunted, illusory, and phantasmal.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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