Phantom

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Phantom \Phan"tom\, n. [OE. fantome, fantosme, fantesme, OF.
     fant[^o]me, fr. L. phantasma, Gr. fa`ntasma, fr. fai`nein to
     show. See {Fancy}, and cf. {Pha["e]ton}, {Phantasm},
     {Phase}.]
     That which has only an apparent existence; an apparition; a
     specter; a phantasm; a sprite; an airy spirit; an ideal


     image.
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           Strange phantoms rising as the mists arise. --Pope.
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           She was a phantom of delight.            --Wordsworth.
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     {Phantom ship}. See {Flying Dutchman}, under {Flying}.
  
     {Phantom tumor} (Med.), a swelling, especially of the
        abdomen, due to muscular spasm, accumulation of flatus,
        etc., simulating an actual tumor in appearance, but
        disappearing upon the administration of an an[ae]sthetic.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Phantom \Phan"tom\, a.
     Being, or of the nature of, a phantom.
  
           Phantom isles are floating in the skies. --B. Taylor.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  phantom
       adj : something apparently sensed but having no physical reality;
             "seemed to hear faint phantom bells"; "the amputee's
             illusion of a phantom limb"
       n 1: a ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the
            apparition that confronted us" [syn: {apparition}, {phantasm},
             {phantasma}, {specter}, {spectre}]
       2: something existing in perception only; "a ghostly apparition
          at midnight" [syn: {apparition}, {phantasm}, {phantasma},
          {shadow}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  200 Moby Thesaurus words for "phantom":
     Barmecidal, Barmecide, Dracula, Frankenstein, Masan, Wolf-man, air,
     airy, airy nothing, apparent, apparition, apparitional, appearance,
     asomatous, astral, astral spirit, autistic, banshee, bodiless,
     bogey, bogeyman, brainchild, bubble, bugaboo, bugbear, chimaera,
     chimera, chimeric, control, decarnate, decarnated, deceptive,
     delirium, delusion, delusional, delusionary, delusive, delusory,
     departed spirit, dereistic, discarnate, disembodied,
     disembodied spirit, dreamlike, dreamy, duppy, dybbuk, ectoplasmic,
     eidolon, erroneous, ether, ethereal, etheric, extramundane,
     fallacious, false, false image, fancy, fantasque, fantastic,
     fantasy, fee-faw-fum, fiction, figment, figure, form, frightener,
     ghost, ghostish, ghostlike, ghostly, ghosty, ghoul, grateful dead,
     guide, hallucination, hant, haunt, hobgoblin, holy terror, horror,
     idle fancy, idolum, illusion, illusional, illusionary, illusive,
     illusory, image, imagery, imaginary, imagination, imagining,
     immaterial, immateriality, impalpable, imponderable, incorporate,
     incorporeal, incorporeal being, incorporeity, incubus,
     insubstantial, insubstantial image, intangible, invention, larva,
     lemures, maggot, make-believe, manes, materialization, mirage,
     misleading, mist, monster, myth, nightmare, nonmaterial,
     nonphysical, occult, ogre, ogress, oni, ostensible, otherworldly,
     phantasm, phantasma, phantasmagoria, phantasmagoric, phantasmal,
     phantasmic, phantomic, phantomlike, phasm, phenomenon, poltergeist,
     presence, psychic, revenant, romance, scarebabe, scarecrow, scarer,
     seeming, self-deceptive, self-deluding, shade, shadow, shadowy,
     shape, shrouded spirit, sick fancy, smoke, specious, specter,
     specterlike, spectral, spectral ghost, spectrum, spirit, spiritual,
     spook, sprite, succubus, supernatural, supposititious, terror,
     theophany, thick-coming fancies, thin air, transmundane, trip,
     unactual, unearthly, unembodied, unextended, unfleshly, unfounded,
     unphysical, unreal, unsubstantial, unsubstantiality, unworldly,
     vampire, vapor, vision, visionary, waking dream, walking dead man,
     wandering soul, werewolf, whim, whimsy, wildest dream,
     wildest dreams, wraith, wraithlike, wraithy, zombie