ghost
ghost is a 5-letter English word with 13 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The spirit; the soul of man. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. The spirit; the soul of man.
- noun. The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.
- noun. Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea.
- noun. A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.
- intransitive verb. To die; to expire.
- transitive verb. To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition.
- noun. a mental representation of some haunting experience
"he looked like he had seen a ghost"
"it aroused specters from his past"
- noun. a suggestion of some quality
"there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone"
"he detected a ghost of a smile on her face"
- noun. the visible disembodied soul of a dead person
- noun. a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else
- verb. write for someone else
"How many books have you ghostwritten so far?"
- verb. haunt like a ghost; pursue
"Fear of illness haunts her"
- verb. move like a ghost
"The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard"
Synonyms
shade, specter, spectre, spook, wraith, touch, trace, ghostwriter, ghostwrite, haunt, obsess
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in ghost:
Common word forms
ghosts, ghosted, ghoster, ghostly, ghosting, ghostless
Words from these letters
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