Phantom

Noun

 * 1) Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; a ghost or apparition; something elusive or delusive.
 * 2) An image that appears only in the mind; an illusion.

Synonyms

 * ghost
 * See also Thesaurus:ghost

Derived terms

 * phantom limb
 * phantom pain

Adjective

 * 1) illusive
 * 2) fictitious or nonexistent

Adjectives for Phantom
sceptered; lurid; ghostly; formless; dismal; ugly; transparent; horrible; ignoble; glorious; charming; terrible; impudent; holy; melancholy; faithless; summer; granite; pale; fair; cloudy; colossal; secular; recurring; august; prodigious; pleasurable; deceitful; monstrous;  solemn;  benignant; dark; simulated; majestic; midnight.

Verbs for Phantom
banish—; devise—; ogle at-—; observe—; picture—; spy—; stare at—; —appears; — departs; —dissolves; —evaporates; —fades; —glares; —leers; —looms; —melts away; —passes; —retires; —vanishes.

Thesaurus
Barmecidal, Barmecide, Dracula, Frankenstein, Masan, Wolf-man, air, airy, airy nothing, apparent, apparition, apparitional, appearance, asomatous, astral, astral spirit, autistic, banshee, bodiless, bogey, bogeyman, brainchild, bubble, bugaboo, bugbear, chimaera, chimera, chimeric, control, decarnate, decarnated, deceptive, delirium, delusion, delusional, delusionary, delusive, delusory, departed spirit, dereistic, discarnate, disembodied, disembodied spirit, dreamlike, dreamy, duppy, dybbuk, ectoplasmic, eidolon, erroneous, ether, ethereal, etheric, extramundane, fallacious, false, false image, fancy, fantasque, fantastic, fantasy, fee-faw-fum, fiction, figment, figure, form, frightener, ghost, ghostish, ghostlike, ghostly, ghosty, ghoul, grateful dead, guide, hallucination, hant, haunt, hobgoblin, holy terror, horror, idle fancy, idolum, illusion, illusional, illusionary, illusive, illusory, image, imagery, imaginary, imagination, imagining, immaterial, immateriality, impalpable, imponderable, incorporate, incorporeal, incorporeal being, incorporeity, incubus, insubstantial, insubstantial image, intangible, invention, larva, lemures, maggot, make-believe, manes, materialization, mirage, misleading, mist, monster, myth, nightmare, nonmaterial, nonphysical, occult, ogre, ogress, oni, ostensible, otherworldly, phantasm, phantasma, phantasmagoria, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantasmic, phantomic, phantomlike, phasm, phenomenon, poltergeist, presence, psychic, revenant, romance, scarebabe, scarecrow, scarer, seeming, self-deceptive, self-deluding, shade, shadow, shadowy, shape, shrouded spirit, sick fancy, smoke, specious, specter, specterlike, spectral, spectral ghost, spectrum, spirit, spiritual, spook, sprite, succubus, supernatural, supposititious, terror, theophany, thick-coming fancies, thin air, transmundane, trip, unactual, unearthly, unembodied, unextended, unfleshly, unfounded, unphysical, unreal, unsubstantial, unsubstantiality, unworldly, vampire, vapor, vision, visionary, waking dream, walking dead man, wandering soul, werewolf, whim, whimsy, wildest dream, wildest dreams, wraith, wraithlike, wraithy, zombie

Alternative forms

 * fantom

Etymology
From fantosme: from  phantasma: from  φάντασμα:.

Noun

 * Catalan: fantasma
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: fantoom
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: Φαντομάς
 * Italian: ,
 * Norwegian:, fantomet


 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: fantomă
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sardinian: pantùma, pantàsima, umbra
 * Spanish:
 * Sumerian: lalartu
 * Swedish:

Anagrams

 * Hampton