specter meaning and definition

SPECTER noun

Definition of specter (noun)

1. a mental representation of some haunting experience
   • "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"
   • synonyms: ghost, shade, spectre, spook, wraith
2. a ghostly appearing figure
   • "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us"
   • synonyms: apparition, fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, spectre