The Clue
Apparition (7 letter answer)
The Answer
PHANTOM
Tags
Notes
The answer PHANTOM is rarely seen, appearing only about once every 1000 puzzles.
Related Clues
Illusory
Imaginary
Specter
Unreal
Not real
Not really there
"The ___ of the Opera," Chaney film
B'way hit beginning in '88
Universal Studios role of 1925
Long-running Broadway musical, familiarly
Definition
PHANTOM as a noun:
1. (apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, specter, spectre) = a ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us"
2. (apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, shadow) = something existing in perception only; "a ghostly apparition at midnight"
PHANTOM as an adjective:
1. something apparently sensed but having no physical reality; "seemed to hear faint phantom bells"; "the amputee's illusion of a phantom limb"