Noun: wraith reyth
- A malevolent or haunting spirit
"Tales spoke of a wraith that haunted the old castle";
- wight [archaic]
- A mental representation of some haunting experience
"he looked like he had seen a wraith";
- ghost, shade, spook, specter [US], spectre [Brit, Cdn]
Derived forms: wraiths
Type of: apparition, fantasm, ghost, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, shadow
Encyclopedia: Wraith, Tom