What is "wraithlike" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does wraithlike mean in English? Meaning of wraithlike definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "wraithlike" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "wraithlike": lacking in substance

Adjective

  • Meaning: lacking in substance
  • Example: strange fancies of unreal and shadowy worlds dim shadowy forms a wraithlike column of smoke
  • Synonyms: shadowy wraithlike
  • Similar: insubstantial unreal unsubstantial
  • Adjective: Resembling a wraith; ghostly 2007 January 20, Matt Zoller Seitz, “Easy Does It, the Next Stop Is a Killer. No, It Really Is.”, New York Times: Mr. Bean’s version plays like the murderous hero of “Crime and Punishment” reimagined as a wraithlike stalker.2007 January 20, Matt Zoller Seitz, “Easy Does It, the Next Stop Is a Killer. No, It Really Is.”, New York Times: Mr. Bean’s version plays like the murderous hero of “Crime and Punishment” reimagined as a wraithlike stalker.
  • Synonyms:

    sickening, horrid, ghostly, macabre, frightening, horrendous, terrible, appalling, frightful, ghoulish, unpleasant, grisly, terrifying, horrible, awful, gruesome, shocking, hideous, grim, lurid, abhorrent, anemic, ashen, bloodless, cadaverous, dim, disgusting, faint, funereal, haggard, livid, loathsome, mortuary, nauseating, offensive, pallid, repellent, repulsive, sepulchral, spectral, supernatural, uncanny, unearthly, unnatural, wan, weak, deathlike, corpselike, spectral, scary, eerie, shadowy, supernatural, ghastly, weird, cadaverous, divine, haunted, holy, illusory, insubstantial, pale, phantom, spiritual, uncanny, unearthly, wan, deathlike, ghostlike, phantasmal, apparitional, corpselike, eidolic, vampiric, wraithy, incorporeal, aerial, airy, celestial, dreamy, ethereal, ghostly, heavenly, impalpable, incorporate, insensible, intangible, metaphysical, psychic, shadowy, spectral, spiritual, subjective, supernatural, unearthly, unsubstantial, unworldly, bodiless, disembodied, imponderable, nonphysical, nonmaterial, dreamlike, apparitional, asomatous, disbodied, discarnate, spiritlike, unembodied, unfleshly, imperceptible, microscopic, unseen, inconspicuous, concealed, covert, deceptive, disguised, ethereal, gaseous, ghostly, ideal, impalpable, indiscernible, infinitesimal, insensible, intangible, masked, obliterated, occult, out of sight, supernatural, ulterior, undisclosed, unreal, vaporous, veiled, imponderable, inappreciable, obscured, screened, unnoticeable, unobservable, unseeable, not in sight, perdu, unapparent, ungraspable, unperceivable, unviewable, aerial, airy, bodiless, celestial, disembodied, dreamy, ethereal, ghostly, heavenly, impalpable, imponderable, incorporate, incorporeal, insensible, insubstantial, intangible, metaphysical, psychic, shadowy, spectral, spiritual, subjective, supernatural, unbodied, uncorporal, unearthly, unsubstantial, unworldly, apparitional, asomatous, disbodied, discarnate, dreamlike, nonmaterial, spiritlike, unembodied, unfleshly, aerial, airy, bodiless, celestial, disembodied, dreamy, ethereal, ghostly, heavenly, impalpable, imponderable, incorporate, incorporeal, insensible, insubstantial, intangible, metaphysical, nonphysical, psychic, shadowy, spectral, spiritual, subjective, supernatural, uncorporal, unearthly, unsubstantial, unworldly, apparitional, asomatous, disbodied, discarnate, dreamlike, nonmaterial, spiritlike, unembodied, unfleshly, aerial, airy, bodiless, celestial, disembodied, dreamy, ethereal, ghostly, heavenly, impalpable, imponderable, incorporate, incorporeal, insensible, insubstantial, intangible, metaphysical, nonphysical, psychic, shadowy, spectral, spiritual, subjective, supernatural, unbodied, unearthly, unsubstantial, unworldly, apparitional, asomatous, disbodied, discarnate, dreamlike, nonmaterial, spiritlike, unembodied, unfleshly,

    Antonyms:

    delightful, pleasing, comforting, wonderful, pleasant, pretty, beautiful, nice, good, great, normal, meaningful, relevant, bodily, real, essential, important, material, substantial, physical, solid, detectable, obvious, visible, seen,

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    wraithlike in English: wraithlike
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