wraith

wraith

noun \ˈrāth\

plural wraiths\ˈrāths also ˈrāthz\

Definition of WRAITH

1

a : the exact likeness of a living person seen usually just before death as an apparition b : ghost, specter

2

: an insubstantial form or semblance : shadow

3

: a barely visible gaseous or vaporous column

— wraith·like \-ˌlīk\ adjective

Examples of WRAITH

1. <the people who once lived here believed that their world was populated by wraiths and witches>

Origin of WRAITH

origin unknown

First Known Use: 1513

Related to WRAITH

Synonyms: apparition, bogey (also bogie or bogy), familiar spirit, hant [dialect], haunt [chiefly dialect], materialization, phantasm (also fantasm), phantom, poltergeist, shade, shadow, specter (or spectre), spirit, spook, sprite, vision, visitant, ghost

Related Words: angel, daimon, familiar, genie, genius, jinni (or jinn also djinni or djinn), shaitan; double, doppelgänger (or doppelganger), fetch; lemures, manes; incubus, lamia, succubus, vampire, zombie (also zombi); cacodemon, demon (or daemon), devil, fiend, ghoul, imp

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Other Occult Terms

augury, censor, invocation, lucidity, metempsychosis, mojo, numinous, preternatural, weird

Rhymes with WRAITH

eighth, faith, saithe, scathe