wraithlike

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wraithlike
Adjective
  • Like the ghostly hulk of the Titanic below the surface of the sea, Northbrook Court is a quiet and cavernous relic — at the bottom of the retail food chain.
    David Petitti, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Now, that’s nearly gone, showing only a ghostly impression against the freckles on his skin.
    Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2025
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
Adjective
  • Watching Ryan Coogler’s Sinners on Resurrection Sunday was more of a spiritual experience than a religious one.
    Taryn Finley, Refinery29, 23 Apr. 2025
  • The Catholic Church is not simply a spiritual enterprise; John Paul II was instrumental in cracking the Soviet bloc by inspiring his native Poland to rebel.
    Howard Chua-Eoan, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Instead, Mu Cassiopeia A is a simple field star --- a yellow dwarf of the same spectral type as our own sun, but one that clocks in at an astonishing 12.7 billion years old.
    Bruce Dorminey, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • McDowell says this is because the Airbus Pleiades satellite likely snapped the photo using different spectral bands.
    Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 14 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • What do these formless smudges on the page mean?
    Jack Lang, The Athletic, 9 Feb. 2025
  • Elaborating on the different forms of Shiva worshipped across cultures, Tripathi says, the concept of divine being is difficult to understand in its nirguna (formless) form.
    Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Standby power, also known as phantom power, is the power an item uses while it's turned off.
    Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Apr. 2025
  • The company can gain a sense of the marketplace by posting phantom jobs.
    Jack Kelly, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • His ethereal paintings often draw from both Eastern and Western influences, reflecting his experience as an artist who bridges two worlds.
    Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • On the new album, Russell Moore, a six-time IBMA male vocalist of the year winner known for his work as part of the seven-time IBMA vocal group of the year-winning group IIIrd Tyme Out, joins Union Station, adding his unmistakable voice alongside Krauss’s ethereal soprano.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 27 Mar. 2025
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
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“Wraithlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wraithlike. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.

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