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Definition of spectre in English: spectre(US specter) noun ˈspɛktəˈspɛktər 1A ghost. a dread of spectres and witches affected every aspect of daily life Example sentencesExamples - The castle itself was haunted, and not just be family ghosts like the Manor, but by terrifying blood drenched spectres, ghouls and a poltergeist.
- I searched the entire throne room, expecting to find a specter or ghost pop out at any second, and my imagination slowly took over reason.
- A hunter of ghosts since his late teens, 35-year-old Taylor says interest in spooks, specters and other spiritual what-not is greater than ever.
- They both sensed the spectre's presence at the same time.
- Of course, this scary apparition is a specter much more often cited than sighted.
- When is the last time you played a ‘survival-horror’ game that featured specters, spirits, and ghosts as the main enemy?
- But the movie is mostly about people seeing ghost images on TVs, seeing specters and electronics turning themselves on and off.
- As more people got into the accusation game, the stories became more bizarre, with accusers claiming, for example, to have seen the specters of witches and witnessed their deeds.
- In such a light, psychology would be the science of the double, of specters, and every photograph a double exposure.
- In curing speech of specters and ghosts, analytical philosophy claims to cleanse the mind of a dreamy fondness for every sort of idealism, vitalism, Platonism, and transcendentalism.
- Earlier I compared the apparition of specters in Observe the Sons of Ulster to sequences of reverance in Macbeth and Hamlet.
- People love to be frightened by make-believe versions of the supernatural, such as ghost stories and vividly hideous specters that pop out of the dark.
- He believes the spectre is the ghost of Pte Crowley, of the 11th North Devonshire Regiment.
- The two men led us in silence, moving like two specters from something out of a ghost story.
- I didn't know why, but the invisible specter made his presence more felt.
- It was as if I were following a hidden specter or ghost.
- It was translucent and obviously a ghost or a close variation of a specter, bowing at the young scientist courteously.
- Only when memory is, like the narrator's in Kesey's novel, sufficiently dim, do the dead appear as specters and ghosts.
- The actress was forced to review her disbelief in ghosts when she saw a spectre at New York's Belasco Theater.
- The train, with its dim lights, stood there like a monster spectre in the dark.
Synonyms ghost, phantom, apparition, spirit, wraith, shadow, presence, illusion Scottish & Irish bodach German doppelgänger West Indian duppy informal spook literary phantasm, shade, revenant, wight rare eidolon, manes - 1.1 Something widely feared as a possible unpleasant or dangerous occurrence.
the spectre of nuclear holocaust Example sentencesExamples - Our world has changed; we must adjust our living habits as necessary to address the increased danger that the specter of terrorism brings.
- A final problem is the specter of human reproductive cloning - to which nearly all voters are opposed.
- We would have a brighter future, not threatened by the specter of global warming.
- But a series of U.S. and Soviet hydrogen bomb tests reawakened public fears, this time focused on the specter of radioactive fallout.
- The spectre of fascism is not haunting Europe, reports Dominic Standish from Italy.
- The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 also greatly intensified middle-class fears of the spectre of the radical Left.
- It also raises the specter of a dangerous shift toward protectionism.
- And with the creep of monetary inflation comes the specter of myriad inflationary effects, currency debasement, and progressive monetary disorder.
- Lately she's been thinking a lot about selling her home to break free from debt, because she fears the specter of foreclosure every day.
- Biological, chemical and nuclear threats have all figured large, as has the spectre of the suicide bomber or pilot.
- The ease with which he could jump from a crisis of British farming to the spectre of biological warfare highlighted the salience of fear as a political resource today.
- Overblown fears about social instability have created the spectre of the terrorist asylum seeker.
- Again, the specter of counterparty risk becomes an issue.
- Such a government is threatened at all times by the spectre of a vote of non-confidence, forcing an election or change of government.
- Jamieson, a lawyer, raised the spectre of legal trouble for the assembly if chiefs were not allowed to vote.
- That was the Fed's first rate hike in four years, driven by growing evidence of a strengthening U.S. labour market and the spectre of new inflationary pressures.
- There is not a sport within the Olympic movement that does not have a cloud hanging over it in terms of the spectre of drug abuse.
- In China, a huge surplus and high savings are raising the specter of inflation.
- The city transportation engineer offered these encouraging words at a preferred-parking hearing, in response to a questioner who had raised the specter of counterfeit parking permits.
- However, intensive care also raises the specter of treatment for treatment's sake and fears of a life prolonged needlessly by machines.
Synonyms threat, menace, shadow, cloud, vision prospect danger, peril, fear, dread
Origin Early 17th century: from French spectre or Latin spectrum (see spectrum). Definition of specter in US English: specter(British spectre) nounˈspektərˈspɛktər 1A ghost. Example sentencesExamples - The actress was forced to review her disbelief in ghosts when she saw a spectre at New York's Belasco Theater.
- Of course, this scary apparition is a specter much more often cited than sighted.
- I searched the entire throne room, expecting to find a specter or ghost pop out at any second, and my imagination slowly took over reason.
- The train, with its dim lights, stood there like a monster spectre in the dark.
- But the movie is mostly about people seeing ghost images on TVs, seeing specters and electronics turning themselves on and off.
- When is the last time you played a ‘survival-horror’ game that featured specters, spirits, and ghosts as the main enemy?
- A hunter of ghosts since his late teens, 35-year-old Taylor says interest in spooks, specters and other spiritual what-not is greater than ever.
- I didn't know why, but the invisible specter made his presence more felt.
- The two men led us in silence, moving like two specters from something out of a ghost story.
- The castle itself was haunted, and not just be family ghosts like the Manor, but by terrifying blood drenched spectres, ghouls and a poltergeist.
- It was as if I were following a hidden specter or ghost.
- Only when memory is, like the narrator's in Kesey's novel, sufficiently dim, do the dead appear as specters and ghosts.
- In such a light, psychology would be the science of the double, of specters, and every photograph a double exposure.
- It was translucent and obviously a ghost or a close variation of a specter, bowing at the young scientist courteously.
- He believes the spectre is the ghost of Pte Crowley, of the 11th North Devonshire Regiment.
- Earlier I compared the apparition of specters in Observe the Sons of Ulster to sequences of reverance in Macbeth and Hamlet.
- In curing speech of specters and ghosts, analytical philosophy claims to cleanse the mind of a dreamy fondness for every sort of idealism, vitalism, Platonism, and transcendentalism.
- People love to be frightened by make-believe versions of the supernatural, such as ghost stories and vividly hideous specters that pop out of the dark.
- As more people got into the accusation game, the stories became more bizarre, with accusers claiming, for example, to have seen the specters of witches and witnessed their deeds.
- They both sensed the spectre's presence at the same time.
- 1.1 Something widely feared as a possible unpleasant or dangerous occurrence.
the specter of nuclear holocaust Example sentencesExamples - Such a government is threatened at all times by the spectre of a vote of non-confidence, forcing an election or change of government.
- Overblown fears about social instability have created the spectre of the terrorist asylum seeker.
- Our world has changed; we must adjust our living habits as necessary to address the increased danger that the specter of terrorism brings.
- However, intensive care also raises the specter of treatment for treatment's sake and fears of a life prolonged needlessly by machines.
- Jamieson, a lawyer, raised the spectre of legal trouble for the assembly if chiefs were not allowed to vote.
- We would have a brighter future, not threatened by the specter of global warming.
- But a series of U.S. and Soviet hydrogen bomb tests reawakened public fears, this time focused on the specter of radioactive fallout.
- And with the creep of monetary inflation comes the specter of myriad inflationary effects, currency debasement, and progressive monetary disorder.
- In China, a huge surplus and high savings are raising the specter of inflation.
- Biological, chemical and nuclear threats have all figured large, as has the spectre of the suicide bomber or pilot.
- The spectre of fascism is not haunting Europe, reports Dominic Standish from Italy.
- It also raises the specter of a dangerous shift toward protectionism.
- The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 also greatly intensified middle-class fears of the spectre of the radical Left.
- The city transportation engineer offered these encouraging words at a preferred-parking hearing, in response to a questioner who had raised the specter of counterfeit parking permits.
- That was the Fed's first rate hike in four years, driven by growing evidence of a strengthening U.S. labour market and the spectre of new inflationary pressures.
- Lately she's been thinking a lot about selling her home to break free from debt, because she fears the specter of foreclosure every day.
- There is not a sport within the Olympic movement that does not have a cloud hanging over it in terms of the spectre of drug abuse.
- Again, the specter of counterparty risk becomes an issue.
- A final problem is the specter of human reproductive cloning - to which nearly all voters are opposed.
- The ease with which he could jump from a crisis of British farming to the spectre of biological warfare highlighted the salience of fear as a political resource today.
Origin Early 17th century: from French spectre or Latin spectrum (see spectrum). |