wraithlike

1. 1.

   lacking in substance

   “strange fancies of unreal and shadowy worlds”

   “dim shadowy forms”

   “a wraithlike column of smoke”

   Synonymsshadowy

   Similarinsubstantial

Other forms of wraithlike

comparative

wraithliker·

superlative

wraithlikest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about wraithlike

What does wraithlike mean?

wraithlike means "lacking in substance".

How many syllables are in wraithlike?

wraithlike has 2 syllables: wraith-like. The stress falls on "wraith".

What is another word for wraithlike?

Close synonyms include shadowy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wraithlike a common word?

wraithlike is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.