spook
noun
1. someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
Similar word(s): creep, weirdie, weirdo, weirdy
Definition categories: person
2. a mental representation of some haunting experience
Similar word(s): ghost, shade, specter, spectre, wraith
Definition categories: thought, apparition, fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, shadow
Sentences with spook as a noun:
- The visit to the old cemetery brought scary visions of spooks and ghosts.
- The building was haunted by a couple of spooks.
- The big spider gave me a spook.