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- 1. a ghost: "a dread of specters and witches affected every aspect of daily life" Similar
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noun [ C ] (also spectre) us / ˈspek·tər / Add to word list. something that causes fear or worry: The specter of inflation concerns many voters. The familiar specter of adversity continues to accompany him. A specter is also a ghost (= the spirit of a dead person that can be seen).
The meaning of SPECTER is a visible disembodied spirit : ghost. How to use specter in a sentence.
the idea of something unpleasant that might happen in the future: The awful specter of civil war looms over the country. Drought and war have raised the specter of food shortages for up to 24 million African people. [ C ] literary. a ghost. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Predicting things and intuition. augury. bellwether. betcha.
Specter definition: a visible incorporeal spirit, especially one of a terrifying nature; ghost; phantom; apparition.. See examples of SPECTER used in a sentence.
A specter means a ghostly apparition, a ghost itself, or simply an idea that people find frightening. You can give yourself nightmares if you listen to too many stories about ghostly specters appearing in dark windows.
n. 1. a visible incorporeal spirit, esp. one of a terrifying nature; ghost; phantom; apparition. 2. some object or source of terror or dread: the specter of disease. Also, esp. Brit., spectre. [1595–1605; < Latin spectrum; see spectrum]
SPECTER meaning: 1 : a ghost or spirit of a dead person; 2 : something bad that might happen in the future.
noun. (Canadian English usually spectre) /ˈspɛktər/. specter (of something) something unpleasant that people are afraid might happen in the future The country is haunted by the specter of civil war. These weeks of drought have once again raised the specter of widespread famine. Definitions on the go.
A haunting or disturbing image or prospect. The terrible specter of nuclear war. American Heritage. Any object of fear or dread. Webster's New World. Synonyms: spectre. fantasm. phantasma. phantom. apparition. wraith. spook. shade. ghost. vision. prospect. manes. image. illusion. Other Word Forms of Specter.
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English spec‧ter /ˈspektə $ -ər/ noun [ countable] the American spelling of spectre Examples from the Corpus specter • How does a specter go about making his confession? • I wish you could have seen the faces of the jury as the awful specter of the future unfolded before them.
