familiar spirit
1 : a spirit or demon that serves or prompts an individual
2 : the spirit of a dead person invoked by a medium to advise or prophesy
Synonyms & Antonyms for dainty
Synonyms: Synonyms
- apparition,
- bogey
- (also bogie or bogy),
- ghost,
- hant
-
[dialect],
- haunt
-
[chiefly dialect],
- materialization,
- phantasm
- (also fantasm),
- phantom,
- poltergeist,
- shade,
- shadow,
- specter
- (or spectre),
- spirit,
- spook,
- sprite,
- vision,
- visitant,
- wraith
First Known Use of familiar spirit
circa 1545, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Dictionary Entries near familiar spirit
More Synonyms and Antonyms offamiliar spirit
the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people
- asked the spiritualist to summon the familiar spirit of her late mother for some matrimonial guidance
- apparition,
- bogey
- (also bogie&"wvl">or bogy),
- ghost,
- hant
-
[dialect],
- haunt
-
[chiefly dialect],
- materialization,
- phantasm
- (also fantasm),
- phantom,
- poltergeist,
- shade,
- shadow,
- specter
- (or spectre),
- spirit,
- spook,
- sprite,
- vision,
- visitant,
- wraith