A Topical Dictionary: Search for spectral

Dictionary Results For "spectral" [?]/[OPML]

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English

Pronunciation

IPA: /'spɛktɹəɫ/

Adjective

Having the appearance of a spectre; ghostly.
Of, or pertaining to, spectres.
Of, or pertaining to, spectrum|spectra.

Translations

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Finnish: spektri-
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French

Pronunciation

IPA: /spɛk.tʁal/

Adjective

{{fr-infl-adj|sm=spectral|smp=spɛk.tʁal|sf=spectrale|sfp=spɛk.tʁal|pm=spectraux|pmp=spɛk.tʁo|pf=spectrales|pfp=spɛk.tʁal}}

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Romanian

Etymology

Pronunciation

IPA: [spek'tral]

Adjective

Declension

Synonyms

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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 spectral
adj 1: of or relating to a spectrum; "spectral colors"; "spectral
analysis"
2: like or being 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, spiritual]

Moby Dictionary
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