Thesaurus results for SPRITE

sprite

noun

ˈsprīt

as in fairy

an imaginary being usually having a small human form and magical powers the child insisted that he'd seen a sprite hiding in the garden

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as in apparition

the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people told hair-raising stories of sprites and spectral ships

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Recent Examples of sprite While the code for Doom is open source, the assets from the game like enemy sprites and environment textures—which feature prominently in this application—are not. —

Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 2 Jan. 2025 Most lightning flashes move down from the clouds to the ground, a sprite goes in the opposite direction: up, into the upper atmosphere. —

Space.com Staff, Space.com, 1 Jan. 2025 Fortnite Gets Elemental Sprites There are many elemental sprites, i.e. living manifestations of magic, to be found around the island. —

Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024 The sprites are bright and colorful, and the pictures are crisp. —

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An iconic apex predator appeared through thick fog like an apparition and cautiously watched a photographer in Yellowstone National Park, stunning video shows.

— Brooke Baitinger, Idaho Statesman, 12 Feb. 2025
Narrow beams of sunlight illuminate the torched frame of a single chair – like an apparition of the torturer who once stood there.

— Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Jan. 2025