spectre

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noun

UK and Australia standard spelling of specter.

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apparitionphantomphantasmphantasmafantasmspecterghostshade
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Meanings

nounspectre (plural spectres)

plural spectres

  1. UK and Australia standard spelling of specter.

    To this extenuated spectre, perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year; but when ahungered and athirst to famine—when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house—Divine Mercy remembers the mourner, […]

    1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Old Maids”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 264

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna ghostly appearing figure

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apparitionphantomphantasmphantasmafantasmspecter
Broader
spiritdisembodied spirit

nouna mental representation of some haunting experience

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ghostshadespookwraithspecter
Broader
apparitionphantomphantasm
Also see
apparitionghostphantasmphantomrevenantshadespecterspookwraith

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

respectspectersceptrescepter
Cite this entry
APA

spectre. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spectre

MLA

“spectre.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spectre. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “spectre,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spectre.

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