Overview of noun phantom

The noun phantom has 2 senses

• apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, specter, spectre -- (a ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us")


• apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, shadow -- (something existing in perception only; "a ghostly apparition at midnight")

Overview of adj phantom

The adj phantom has 1 sense

• phantom -- (something apparently sensed but having no physical reality; "seemed to hear faint phantom bells"; "the amputee's illusion of a phantom limb")