'Spectral' definitions:
Definition of 'spectral'
From: WordNet
adjective
Of or relating to a spectrum; "spectral colors"; "spectral analysis"
adjective
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]
Definition of 'Spectral'
From: GCIDE
- Spectral \Spec"tral\, a.
- 1. Of or pertaining to a specter; ghosty. [1913 Webster]
- He that feels timid at the spectral form of evil is not the man to spread light. --F. W. Robertson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Opt.) Of or pertaining to the spectrum; made by the spectrum; as, spectral colors; spectral analysis. [1913 Webster]
- Spectral lemur. (Zool.) See Tarsius. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'spectral'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- airy,
- apparent,
- apparitional,
- astral,
- autistic,
- Barmecidal,
- Barmecide,
- 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