Phantom
['fæntəm]
Definition
(adj.) something apparently sensed but having no physical reality; 'seemed to hear faint phantom bells'; 'the amputee's illusion of a phantom limb' .
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Definition
(n.) That which has only an apparent existence; an apparition; a specter; a phantasm; a sprite; an airy spirit; an ideal image.
Typist: Louis
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Phantasm.
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Definition
n. a phantasm.—adj. illusive spectral.—adj. Phantomat′ic relating to a phantom.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that a phantom pursues you, foretells strange and disquieting experiences. To see a phantom fleeing from you, foretells that trouble will assume smaller proportions. See Ghost.
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Examples
- Then, as I looked up at it, while it dripped, it seemed to my oppressed conscience like a phantom devoting me to the Hulks. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- But it was a truism, a phantom, and broke down under the weight of her regret. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- And their long-departed owners seemed to throng the gloomy cells and corridors with their phantom shapes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- See what a poor, pale, grim phantom I am--more pitiable than formidable. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Oh, my worldly friends, pursuing the phantom, Pleasure, through the guilty mazes of Dissipation, how easy it is to be happy, if you will only be good! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- You, sir, are the most phantom-like of all: you are a mere dream. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It was as though she had stepped, not out of, but into, Reynolds's canvas, banishing the phantom of his dead beauty by the beams of her living grace. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- His sleep was broken by infant wails and visions of a phantom figure pacing noiselessly to and fro in the watches of the night. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Then he withdrew like a phantom. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Well, but can you imagine that God will be willing to lie, whether in word or deed, or to put forth a phantom of himself? Plato. The Republic.
- With all this, I had never yet been able to arrest in his visits the freakish, friendlycigar-loving phantom. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It is a phantom difference created by two names. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I doubt if any man can stand in the Grotto of the Annunciation and people with the phantom images of his mind its too tangible walls of stone. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The day comes like a phantom. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The Flying Dutchman is a phantom ship said to be seen in stormy weather off the Cape of Good Hope, and thought to forbode ill luck. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The two ships becalmed on a torpid sea, I believed to be marine phantoms. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Let me stand aside, to see the phantoms of those days go by me, accompanying the shadow of myself, in dim procession. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Hence my bewilderment at the phantoms of chairs, and the wraiths of looking-glasses, tea-urns, and teacups. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Here, under the quiet stars, these old streets seem thronged with the phantoms of forgotten ages. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- There is a dread, unhallowed necromancy of evil, that turns things sweetest and holiest to phantoms of horror and affright. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- With this difference, that being realities and not phantoms, there is the greater danger of their breaking in. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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