wraith (redirected from Wraith-like)

wraith  (rth)

n.

1. An apparition of a living person that appears as a portent just before that person's death.

2. The ghost of a dead person.

3. Something shadowy and insubstantial.

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wraith [reɪθ]

n

1. (Spirituality, New Age, Astrology & Self-help / Alternative Belief Systems) the apparition of a person living or thought to be alive, supposed to appear around the time of his death

2. (Spirituality, New Age, Astrology & Self-help / Alternative Belief Systems) a ghost or any apparition

3. an insubstantial copy of something

4. something pale, thin, and lacking in substance, such as a column of smoke

[Scottish, of unknown origin]

wraithlike  adj

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

wraith - a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past" ghost, specter, spectre, spook, shade fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, shadow, apparition - something existing in perception only; "a ghostly apparition at midnight"

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wraith

noun ghost, spirit, shade (literary), phantom, spectre, spook (informal), apparition, revenant, eidolon She believed herself to have been visited by wraiths from the afterlife.

Translations

wraith [reɪθ] N → fantasma m

wraith

n → Gespenst nt, → Geist m

wraith [reɪθ] n → spettro