ghost | Definition of ghost

Synonyms and Antonyms of ghost

1 the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people

looked for ghosts in the graveyard on Halloween

Synonyms of ghost

apparition, bogey (also bogie), familiar spirit, hant [dialect], haunt [chiefly dialect], materialization, phantasm (also fantasm), phantom, poltergeist, shade, shadow, specter (or spectre), spirit, spook, sprite, vision, visitant, wraith

Words Related to ghost

angel, daimon, familiar, genie, genius, jinni (or jinn), shaitan

double, doppelgänger (or doppelganger), fetch

incubus, lamia, succubus, vampire, zombie (also zombi)

cacodemon, demon (or daemon), devil, fiend, ghoul, imp

2 the smallest amount or part imaginable

she may be a good endurance runner, but she doesn't stand a ghost of a chance of winning in a sprint

Synonyms of ghost

beans, bubkes (also bupkes), continental, damn, darn (also durn), diddly [slang], diddly-squat [slang], doodley-squat (or doodly-squat), fig, hoot, iota, jot, lick, modicum, rap, squat [slang], syllable, tittle, whit, whoop

Words Related to ghost

ace, bit, crumb, dab, driblet, glimmer, hint, little, mite, nip, ounce, particle, peanuts, pin, ray, scrap, scruple, semblance, shade, shadow, shred, skosh, smidgen (also smidgeon), snap, speck, spot, sprinkling, strain, streak, suspicion, touch, trace

3 a tiny often physical indication of something lost or vanished

the down-at-the-heels town house is but a ghost of the neighborhood's former grandeur

Synonyms of ghost

echo, relic, shadow, trace, vestige

Words Related to ghost

memento, remembrance, reminder

afterimage, aftertaste

balance, corpse, hangover, leftover, oddment, remainder, remnant, scrap

dreg(s), leavings, remain(s), residual, residue, rest

4 an evil spirit

the vengeful ghosts of seamen who were deliberately shipwrecked upon these shores

Synonyms of ghost

cacodemon, demon (or daemon), devil, fiend, ghoul, ghoulie, imp, shaitan

Words Related to ghost

hag [archaic], lamia, vampire

incubus, nightmare, succubus

afreet (or afrit), genie, jinni (or jinn)