phantom

fantasma, inexistente

Que parece existir o estar presente, aunque en realidad no existe o no está ahí.

En inglés sencillo: Seeming to exist or be present, although it is not actually there.

• The company listed phantom employees.
• He felt phantom pain in his missing hand.
• Investigators found payments to several phantom suppliers.

Sinónimos: nonexistent, imaginary, fictitious

Antónimos: real

Expresiones frecuentes: phantom limb, phantom pain, phantom employee

fantasma

Espíritu o figura extraña que parece aparecer, aunque no está presente físicamente.

En inglés sencillo: A ghost, or a strange figure that seems to appear but is not physically there.

• A phantom appeared in the hall.
• She believed the castle was haunted by a phantom.
• The pale phantoms vanished as the sun rose.

Sinónimos: ghost, apparition

Expresiones frecuentes: a pale phantom, phantom of someone, a mysterious phantom