A spectre is a ghost or spirit. If you see a spectre of the previous owners in your new house, get out quick! A spectre can also be a thought that haunts you.
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a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"
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a ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us"
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Something preternaturally visible; an apparition; a ghost;
a phantom.
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The tarsius.
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A stick insect.
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See Specter.
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I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.
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Other Usage ExamplesThe rapid dissemination of technology and information offers entirely new ways of production, but it can also bring the spectre of more states developing weapons of mass destruction.