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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ghostly |
| Synonyms: | apparitional, eerie, haunted, illusory, phantasmal, phantom, scary, shadowy, spiritual, spooky, supernatural |
| Main Entry: | eerie |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | spooky |
| Synonyms: | awesome, bizarre, crawly, creepy, fantastic, fearful, frightening, ghostly, mysterious, scary, spectral, strange, supernatural, superstitious, uncanny, unearthly, weird |
| Antonyms: | funny, normal, ordinary, silly |
| Main Entry: | ghastly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | horrifying, dreadful; pale |
| Synonyms: | 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 |
| Antonyms: | delightful, pleasant, pleasing, wonderful |
| Main Entry: | ghostly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | spooky |
| Synonyms: | apparitional, cadaverous, corpselike, deathlike, divine, eerie, eidolic, ghastly, ghostlike, haunted, holy, illusory, insubstantial, pale, phantasmal, phantom, scary, shadowy, spectral, spiritual, supernatural, uncanny, unearthly, vampiric, wan, weird, wraithlike, wraithy |
| Main Entry: | imaginary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fictitious, invented |
| Synonyms: | 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 |
| Notes: | imaginary means not based on fact while imaginative means marked by independence and creativity in thought or action |
| Antonyms: | existing, factual, genuine, physical, real, substantial, true |
| Main Entry: | immaterial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not existing in physical form |
| Synonyms: | 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 |
| Antonyms: | bodily, material, physical, real, solid, substantial |
| Main Entry: | magic/magical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bewitching, charming |
| Synonyms: | bewitched, charismatic, clairvoyant, conjuring, demoniac, diabolic, eerie, enchanted, enchanting, ensorcelled, entranced, entrancing, extraordinary, fascinating, fiendish, ghostly, haunted, imaginary, magnetic, marvelous, miraculous, mysterious, mystic, mythical, necromantic, occult, otherworldly, parapsychological, runic, sorcerous, spectral, spellbinding, spellbound, spiritualistic, spooky, telekinetic, thaumaturgic, tranced, uncanny, unusual, weird, witching, witchlike, wizardly, wonderful |
| Antonyms: | normal, unmoving |
| Main Entry: | pale |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | light in color or effect |
| Synonyms: | anemic, ashen, ashy, blanched, bleached, bloodless, cadaverous, colorless, deathlike, dim, doughy, dull, faded, faint, feeble, ghastly, gray, haggard, inadequate, ineffective, ineffectual, insubstantial, livid, lurid, pallid, pasty, poor, sallow, sick, sickly, spectral, thin, unsubstantial, wan, washed-out, waxen, waxlike, weak, white, whitish |
| Notes: | a pail is a bucket while pale means whitish in complexion or very light colored |
| Antonyms: | bright, colorful, glowing, radiant |
| Main Entry: | paranormal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | supernatural |
| Synonyms: | abnormal, celestial, ghostly, metaphysical, mysterious, mystic, occult, phenomenal, preternatural, psychic, spectral, transcendental, uncomprehensible, unearthly |
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