Dictionary Entry

spectral

Part of SpeechadjectivePronunciation/ˈspɛktɹəɫ/Used In Literature ↓

Of, or pertaining to, spectres; ghostly.

In a Sentence

“The spectral chain-rattling and moans gave me the chills.”

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density spectrallines spectralanalysis spectralrange spectralline spectralregion spectralspectral powerspectral mass

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Poetry examples for “spectral”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Within a lonely castle-moat;
And as the full-moon, spectral, lies
Within the crescent’s gleaming arms,

Join, then, if thee it please, the bitter jest
Of mankind's progress; all its spectral race
Mere impotence of rest,

Within the valleys dim and brown,
And on the spectral mountain's crown,
The wearied light is dying down,

Preserved like dendrites in this silver shimmer,
Some spectral speculations fill his brain,
Float like a storm above the sorry wreck

When August burning low
Arise this spectral Canticle
Repose to typify

Of household fires gleam warm and bright;
Above, the spectral glaciers shone,
And from his lips escaped a groan,

As it rose above the graves on the hill,
Lonely and spectral and sombre and still.
And lo! as he looks, on the belfry's height

White as a sea-fog, landward bound,
The spectral camp was seen,
And, with a sorrowful, deep sound,

As it rose above the graves on the hill,
Lonely and spectral and sombre and still.
And lo! as he looks, on the belfry's height

Agitato ma non troppo
Spectral Lovers
Bells for John Whitesides’ Daughter