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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. of or relating to a spectrum;
- Example: "spectral colors"
- Example: "spectral analysis"

2. resembling or characteristic of a phantom;
- Example: "a ghostly face at the window"
- Example: "a phantasmal presence in the room"
- Example: "spectral emanations"
- Example: "spiritual tappings at a seance"
[syn: apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Spectral \Spec"tral\, a.
   1. Of or pertaining to a specter; ghosty.
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            He that feels timid at the spectral form of evil is
            not the man to spread light.          --F. W.
                                                  Robertson.
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   2. (Opt.) Of or pertaining to the spectrum; made by the
      spectrum; as, spectral colors; spectral analysis.
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   Spectral lemur. (Zool.) See Tarsius.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

spectral
    adj 1: of or relating to a spectrum; "spectral colors";
           "spectral analysis"
    2: resembling or characteristic of a phantom; "a ghostly face at
       the window"; "a phantasmal presence in the room"; "spectral
       emanations"; "spiritual tappings at a seance" [syn:
       apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal,
       spectral, spiritual]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

118 Moby Thesaurus words for "spectral":
   Barmecidal, Barmecide, airy, apparent, apparitional, astral,
   autistic, bicolor, bicolored, cadaverous, chimeric, chromatic,
   cold, colorful, colorific, coloring, colory, cool, corpselike,
   crazy, daedal, deathlike, deceptive, delusional, delusionary,
   delusive, delusory, dereistic, dichromatic, disembodied,
   divers-colored, dreamlike, dreamy, ectoplasmic, eerie, erroneous,
   ethereal, etheric, fallacious, false, fantastic, ghostish,
   ghostlike, ghostly, ghosty, glowing, harlequin, harmonious,
   illusional, illusionary, illusive, illusory, imaginary,
   incorporeal, kaleidoscopic, many-colored, matching, medley,
   misleading, monochromatic, monochrome, monochromic, motley,
   multicolor, multicolored, multicolorous, ostensible, parti-color,
   parti-colored, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantasmic, phantom,
   phantomic, phantomlike, pigmentary, polychromatic, polychrome,
   polychromic, prismal, prismatic, psychic, rainbow, seeming,
   self-deceptive, self-deluding, shadowy, shot, shot through,
   specious, specterlike, spiritual, spooky, supernatural,
   supposititious, thunder and lightning, tinctorial, tingent, toning,
   trichromatic, trichromic, tricolor, tricolored, two-tone, unactual,
   unearthly, unfounded, unreal, unsubstantial, varicolored,
   variegated, versicolor, versicolored, visionary, warm, weird,
   wraithlike, wraithy