'Spook' definitions:
Definition of 'spook'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Spook'
From: GCIDE
- Spook \Spook\ (sp[=oo]k), n. [D. spook; akin to G. spuk, Sw. sp["o]ke, Dan. sp["o]gelse a specter, sp["o]ge to play, sport, joke, sp["o]g a play, joke.]
- 1. A spirit; a ghost; an apparition; a hobgoblin. [Written also spuke.] --Ld. Lytton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Zool.) The chimaera. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'spook'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affright,
- agent,
- agitate,
- alarm,
- apparition,
- appearance,
- astral,
- astral spirit,
- awe,
- banshee,
- bogey,
- bug,
- case,
- character,
- control,
- convulse,
- curdle the blood,
- departed spirit,
- discompose,
- disembodied spirit,
- disquiet,
- distract,
- disturb,
- duck,
- duppy,
- dybbuk,
- eidolon,
- embroil,
- form,
- fright,
- frighten,
- funk,
- ghost,
- grateful dead,
- guide,
- hant,
- haunt,
- horripilate,
- idolum,
- immateriality,
- incorporeal,
- incorporeal being,
- incorporeity,
- larva,
- lemures,
- make one tremble,
- manes,
- Masan,
- materialization,
- obsess,
- oddball,
- oddity,
- oni,
- original,
- perturb,
- phantasm,
- phantasma,
- phantom,
- poltergeist,
- possess,
- presence,
- psych,
- quiz,
- raise apprehensions,
- revenant,
- scare,
- shade,
- shadow,
- shake,
- shape,
- shrouded spirit,
- specter,
- spectral ghost,
- spirit,
- sprite,
- spy,
- stagger,
- startle,
- terrify,
- terrorize,
- theophany,
- throw,
- throw into confusion,
- trouble,
- undercover man,
- unman,
- unnerve,
- unsettle,
- unstring,
- unsubstantiality,
- upset,
- vision,
- walking dead man,
- wandering soul,
- wraith,
- zombie