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wraithlike
adjective as in ghastly
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adjective as in ghostly
adjective as in immaterial
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Weak matches
- aerial
- airy
- apparitional
- asomatous
- bodiless
- celestial
- disbodied
- discarnate
- disembodied
- dreamlike
- dreamy
- ethereal
- ghostly
- heavenly
- impalpable
- imponderable
- incorporate
- insensible
- intangible
- metaphysical
- nonphysical
- psychic
- shadowy
- spectral
- spiritlike
- spiritual
- subjective
- supernatural
- unearthly
- unembodied
- unfleshly
- unsubstantial
- unworldly
adjective as in invisible
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Strong matches
Weak matches
- concealed
- covert
- deceptive
- disguised
- ethereal
- gaseous
- ghostly
- ideal
- impalpable
- imponderable
- inappreciable
- indiscernible
- infinitesimal
- insensible
- intangible
- masked
- not in sight
- obliterated
- obscured
- occult
- out of sight
- perdu
- screened
- supernatural
- ulterior
- unapparent
- undisclosed
- ungraspable
- unnoticeable
- unobservable
- unperceivable
- unreal
- unviewable
- vaporous
- veiled
adjective as in nonphysical
Weak matches
- aerial
- airy
- apparitional
- asomatous
- bodiless
- celestial
- disbodied
- discarnate
- disembodied
- dreamlike
- dreamy
- ethereal
- ghostly
- heavenly
- impalpable
- imponderable
- incorporate
- incorporeal
- insensible
- insubstantial
- intangible
- metaphysical
- nonmaterial
- psychic
- shadowy
- spectral
- spiritlike
- spiritual
- subjective
- supernatural
- unbodied
- uncorporal
- unearthly
- unembodied
- unfleshly
- unsubstantial
- unworldly
adjective as in unbodied
Weak matches
- aerial
- airy
- apparitional
- asomatous
- bodiless
- celestial
- disbodied
- discarnate
- disembodied
- dreamlike
- dreamy
- ethereal
- ghostly
- heavenly
- impalpable
- imponderable
- incorporate
- incorporeal
- insensible
- insubstantial
- intangible
- metaphysical
- nonmaterial
- nonphysical
- psychic
- shadowy
- spectral
- spiritlike
- spiritual
- subjective
- supernatural
- uncorporal
- unearthly
- unembodied
- unfleshly
- unsubstantial
- unworldly
adjective as in uncorporal
Weak matches
- aerial
- airy
- apparitional
- asomatous
- bodiless
- celestial
- disbodied
- discarnate
- disembodied
- dreamlike
- dreamy
- ethereal
- ghostly
- heavenly
- impalpable
- imponderable
- incorporate
- incorporeal
- insensible
- insubstantial
- intangible
- metaphysical
- nonmaterial
- nonphysical
- psychic
- shadowy
- spectral
- spiritlike
- spiritual
- subjective
- supernatural
- unbodied
- unearthly
- unembodied
- unfleshly
- unsubstantial
- unworldly
Example Sentences
Throughout the July competency trial, the 20-year-old Dominguez sat wraithlike, pale, his unwashed hair a curtain in front of his eyes.
Appearing wraithlike behind the glass, stairways in both wind over and around themselves like crinkly strands of DNA as they ascend full height.
Pale and wraithlike, Pattinson’s bummer of a Batman slugs and slashes his way through his crime-fighting duties, at one point introducing himself as Vengeance.
Though Ruthie did escape, and was away from her hometown for years, she has waited for release from its wraithlike grasp.
When asked about where his wraithlike phrasing comes from, Goonew once told me, “That’s just how I rap. I feel how I feel. It’s just regular.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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