wraithlike

adjective

Definition of wraithlikenext
as in disembodied

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wraithlike
  1. ghostly
  2. incorporeal
  3. spiritual
  4. spectral
  5. formless
  6. phantom
  7. ethereal
  8. unbodied
Adjective
  • Bits were acute — the repeat of the first-movement exposition returned to the material with a ghostlier sheen — but full movements lacked through-lines of energy, focus and poignancy; the climaxes didn’t feel earned.
    Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
  • Highway 101, located along Oregon’s Pacific Coast, holds a popular tale of a ghostly woman who vanished while driving near Cannon Beach many years ago.
    Paula Conway, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
Definition of ghostly
Adjective
  • If reason teaches that God is incorporeal, this means that God has no body; God does not physically see, nor do people see God.
    Randy L. Friedman, The Conversation, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The digital files are incorporeal.
    BostonGlobe.com, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2021
Definition of incorporeal
Adjective
  • Actress dies after reportedly consuming frog venom at spiritual cleansing retreat.
    Fox News, Fox News, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Transiting through this mystical Water sign since 2011, Neptune in Pisces amplifies our intuitive abilities and spiritual callings.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of spiritual
Adjective
  • Data can be encoded in both the frequency and depth of these spectral holes.
    Thomas Coughlin, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Yun Zeng, a brilliant young horn player who this year assumed a co-principal position alongside Dohr, delivered a spectral solo that glowed through the murk and then was swallowed up in it.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of spectral
Adjective
  • That doubtlessly makes Skeleton Crew feel more formless than would be acceptable if the series had been trimmed down to a movie.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • There is clearly some strife between Ben and Louise, unresolved tension that is often exacerbated by Ben’s unemployment, along with his tendency to be a formless wet blanket.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 10 Sep. 2024
Definition of formless
Adjective
  • The phantom costs of legacy software and the gains to be made from modernization usually more than cover the costs of sticking with an outdated status quo.
    Eric Bernstein, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
  • The Ravens then saw their first drive wiped out by a phantom leg whip call against fullback Patrick Ricard.
    Baltimore Sun staff, Baltimore Sun, 26 Nov. 2024
Definition of phantom
Adjective
  • Lewin’s fusion of art with technology can be experienced through February 16, 2025, at Discovery Green in Houston where her ATLAS installation suspends 24 handcrafted and hand-painted ethereal glowing moths from stately oak trees along the park’s Brown Promenade.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
  • With the rest of her makeup kept minimal, the actress' ethereal skin is even more striking.
    Karli Bendlin, People.com, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of ethereal
Adjective
  • Though its name suggests a nootropics concern or a purveyor of networked exercise equipment, Superhuman’s unbodied offering is productivity software for the inbox.
    Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 17 July 2019
  • Deleuze and Guattari, in Anti-Oedipus, see in it the model of a new kind of reasoning: schizoid, unbodied, and diffuse.
    Sam Kriss, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2017
Definition of unbodied
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