What is the meaning of specter?

A mental representation of some haunting experience.
- usage: "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"
- synonyms: ghost, shade, spook, wraith, spectre
A ghostly appearing figure.
- usage: "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us"
- synonyms: apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, spectre

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APA	WordNet. (2010). Specter. Retrieved September 25, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/specter/definitions/1312180
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