ghosts

[gohsts] / goʊsts /

NOUN

spirit of the dead

Synonyms

STRONGEST

demon devil phantom shadow soul specter vampire vision

STRONG

apparition appearance banshee daemon haunt kelpie manes phantasm poltergeist revenant shade spook visitor wraith zombie

WEAK

eidolon ethereal being incorporeal being

Antonyms

STRONGEST

angel god reality

WEAK

being entity

Example Sentences

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Ghosts, the Bafta-nominated TV comedy about a young couple who inerit a crumbling mansion with spooky inhabitants, is being made into a feature film.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

Ghosts must always be confronted before they can be exorcised.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025

Since then Murakami has integrated his art on Louis Vuitton handbags, a Kanye West album cover, and the Kid Cudi collaboration Kids See Ghosts.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2025

The future of art is very much the theme of “Your Ghosts Are Mine: Expanded Cinema, Amplified Voices,” a film and video installation that coincides with this year’s Venice Biennale.

From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2024

Ghosts laundered them and hung them back up, again and again over years, and she wore them out one by one and eventually grew old in them.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor