Look over there, across the room. Is that a phantom, some weary soul come back from the dead to haunt you? Maybe it’s a shadow, or maybe it’s a ghost. Either way, turn on a light and it’ll disappear. Hopefully.
That which has only an apparent existence; an apparition; a specter; a phantasm; a sprite; an airy spirit; an ideal image.
Noun
something existing in perception only; "a ghostly apparition at midnight"
Noun
a ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us"
Adjective S.
something apparently sensed but having no physical reality; "seemed to hear faint phantom bells"; "the amputee''s illusion of a phantom limb"
n.
That which has only an apparent existence; an apparition;
a specter; a phantasm; a sprite; an airy spirit; an ideal image.
Phantom
Strange phantoms rising as the mists arise.
She was a phantom of delight.
That which has only an apparent existence; an apparition; a specter; a phantasm; a sprite; an airy spirit; an ideal image.
Usage Examples
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
I haven't seen Clones, which has been during this period when I haven't seen much of anything, but I did see Phantom Menace, and see my feelings about it - see, first of all, I think that when you make a lot of movies, your attitude about the movies changes.
O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.
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Other Usage ExamplesI loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better - as in the 'Chronicles Of Narnia,' 'The Wizard Of Oz,' 'The Phantom Tollbooth,' the 'Dungeons & Dragons' cartoon on Saturday morning in the '80s.
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.
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