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apparitional
adjective as in ghostly
adjective as in imaginary
adjective as in immaterial
Strong matches
Weak matches
- aerial
- airy
- 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
- wraithlike
adjective as in nonphysical
Weak matches
- aerial
- airy
- 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
- wraithlike
adjective as in notional
Weak matches
- abstract
- apocryphal
- assumed
- chimeric
- chimerical
- conceptual
- deceptive
- delusive
- dreamed-up
- dreamlike
- dreamy
- fabulous
- fancied
- fanciful
- fantastic
- fantastical
- fictional
- figmental
- fool's paradise
- hallucinatory
- hypothetical
- ideal
- illusive
- illusory
- imaginative
- imagined
- legendary
- made-up
- mythological
- nonexistent
- phantasmal
- phantasmic
- quixotic
- shadowy
- spectral
- supposed
- supposititious
- theoretical
- trumped-up
- unreal
- unsubstantial
- visionary
- whimsical
adjective as in spectral
adjective as in unbodied
Weak matches
- aerial
- airy
- 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
- wraithlike
adjective as in uncorporal
Weak matches
- aerial
- airy
- 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
- wraithlike
Example Sentences
The title song — which allows that a little imperfection is OK and insists, “I’m on your side” — approaches psych-folk, with low-fi guitar and piano and apparitional sounds and voices.
As author of a book called “The World’s Most Haunted Places” and frequent seeker of haunted locations on vacation, Belanger said travel and ghosts go hand in apparitional hand.
She pulled out her phone to show me a picture she took of him at one of the rallies, a view from the crowd, the glare from the spotlights giving him a slightly apparitional quality.
The fence that is both apparitional and yet divides at the same time.
Some he sets on fire, guiding the flames to leave graphic voids; others he douses with chemicals to tease out apparitional abstractions from the pigments.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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