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Synonyms for spectral
adj ghostlyeerie
adjective. spooky
ghastly
adjective. horrifying, dreadful; pale
- abhorrent
- anemic
- appalling
- ashen
- awful
- bloodless
- cadaverous
- corpselike
- deathlike
- dim
- disgusting
- faint
- frightening
- frightful
- funereal
- ghostly
- ghoulish
- grim
- grisly
- gruesome
- haggard
- hideous
- horrendous
- horrible
- horrid
- livid
- loathsome
- lurid
- macabre
- mortuary
- nauseating
- offensive
- pallid
- repellent
- repulsive
- sepulchral
- shocking
- sickening
- spectral
- supernatural
- terrible
- terrifying
- uncanny
- unearthly
- unnatural
- unpleasant
- wan
- weak
- wraithlike
ghostly
adjective. spooky
imaginary
adjective. fictitious, invented
- abstract
- apocryphal
- apparitional
- assumed
- chimerical
- deceptive
- delusive
- dreamed-up
- dreamlike
- dreamy
- fabulous
- fancied
- fanciful
- fantastic
- fictional
- figmental
- fool's paradise
- hallucinatory
- hypothetical
- ideal
- illusive
- illusory
- imaginative
- imagined
- legendary
- made-up
- mythological
- nonexistent
- notional
- phantasmal
- phantasmic
- quixotic
- shadowy
- spectral
- supposed
- supposititious
- theoretical
- trumped up
- unreal
- unsubstantial
- visionary
- whimsical
immaterial
adjective. not existing in physical form
- aerial
- airy
- apparitional
- asomatous
- bodiless
- celestial
- disbodied
- discarnate
- disembodied
- dreamlike
- dreamy
- ethereal
- ghostly
- heavenly
- impalpable
- imponderable
- incorporate
- incorporeal
- insensible
- intangible
- metaphysical
- nonmaterial
- nonphysical
- psychic
- shadowy
- spectral
- spiritlike
- spiritual
- subjective
- supernatural
- unearthly
- unembodied
- unfleshly
- unsubstantial
- unworldly
- wraithlike
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