Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. alternative spelling of doppelganger.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A spiritual or ghostly double or counterpart; esp., an apparitional double of a living person; a cowalker.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a ghostly double of a living person that haunts its living counterpart
Examples
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘doppelgänger’.
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MYTH - spooky creatures
carrion-eater, solar bird, giant boar, black dog, guardian, fire giant, marsh nymph, fish pike, undead, skeleton, horned snake, pegasus and 607 more...
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Poe
dark descriptors
sepulchral, unutterable, decrepitude, abjection, abasement, lugubrious, moribund, recrudescence, prevaricator, doppelgänger, ululation, crepuscular and 13 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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Mythical Beings
mermaid, manticore, fairy, brownie, dwarf, elf, leprechaun, selkie, gremlin, puck, pixie, genie and 97 more...
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Realia from Everywhere
Culturally defined terms and expressions from the four corners of the world
fjord, mistral steppe, tornado, tsunami, polder, kiwi, koala, sequoia, Abominable Snowman, paprika, spaghetti, empanada and 299 more...
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ghost
This is Ghost List 2 ( the kind that go 'boo!' ) :P
( open list )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/macabrephantom, spectral, specter, spectre, spooky, poltergeist, haunt, spirit, banshee, cryptic, shadow, phantasm and 311 more...
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Ballardian
All things descriptive from JG
Ballardoperation mindfuck, pataphysics, wahrheitssensible..., polymorphism, postprandial, covalent, stygian, lucus a non lucendo, kafkaesque, leitmotif, fugacious, ablate and 81 more...
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Burroughs
Detestable words
purulence, bête noire, exigent, exculpate, desideratum, lucriferous, concomitant, pertinacious, pervicacious, gemütlichkeit, sublimate, sanfroid and 39 more...
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Mythological Beastiary
abada, therianthropy, ba, bahamut, balaur, banshee, behemoth, bendigeidfran, bluecap, centaur, bugbear, Ceryneian Hind and 14 more...
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Tricky Words from German
Loanwords from German -- some established, some wet behind the ears -- that are difficult to spell, pronounce, or remember.
Torschlusspanik, Fräulein, weltanschauung, Weltschmerz, sprachgefühl, schadenfreude, katzenjammer, Radfahrer, gemütlich, zeitgeist, gesellschaft, gemeinschaft and 48 more...
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Misanthropic
Lovecraft, Lovecraftian, bete noire
Lovecraftian, bête noire, festinate, hathos, misogynist, foredoom, decorticate, malingerer, nemophilist, mendicant, pendragon, stultify and 33 more...
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the trial of the wasps
The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!
quixotic, shattered, extravagant, warmth, courage, indomitable, spunky, unscathed, valiant, plucky, protagonist, antagonist and 27 more...
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•Open List: Two for One
Phrases using the word "double." No doubles allowed. ;-)
double over, double up, doubled fists, double blanket, double room, double bed, double time, double sink, double-time, double scotch, double back, on the double and 87 more...
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LEGENDARY CREATURES
but only the ones with adorable names
whangdoodle, teakettler, hidebehind, argopelter, splintercat, come-at-a-body, fibbertigibbet, harpy-hag, cactus cat, glawackus, manticore, hodag and 40 more...
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Miscellaneous
‽, ☤, mandelbrot, angora rabbit, psychrolutes marc..., vampyroteuthis in..., basking shark, mano de desierto, underwater sculpt..., surgical dining, gyroscope, Derinkuyu and 161 more...
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The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 2369 more...
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effulgent_eyes 2. alter ego
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: other side to personality
Synonyms: doppelganger, evil twin, second self
3. alter ego
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: companion
Synonyms: buddy, chum, confidante, counterpart, doppelganger*, pal, soul mate
* = informal/non-formal usage
4. counterpart
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: match; identical part or thing
Synonyms: analogue, carbon copy, complement, copy, correlate, correlative, correspondent, dead ringer, ditto*, doppelganger , duplicate, equal, equivalent, fellow, like, look alike, mate, obverse, opposite, opposite number, peas in a pod, pendant, ringer, spit and image, spitting image, supplement, tally, twin, two of a kind
5. poltergeist
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: ghost
Synonyms: apparition, appearance, banshee, demon, doppelganger , haunter, kelpie, phantasm, phantom, revenant, specter, spirit, spook, vision, visitor
6. specter
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: ghost
Synonyms: apparition, appearance, demon, doppelganger , phantasm, phantom, poltergeist, presence, shadow, spirit, spook, vision
7. spitting image
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: exact likeness
Synonyms: Doppelganger , carbon copy, clone, copy, dead ringer, double, duplicate, eidetic image, exact counterpart, exact duplicate, exact likeness, facsimile, image of, likeness, living image, living picture, look-alike, lookalike, match, mirror image, picture of, replica, ringer, spit and image, twin, very image
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Jun 12, 2010
punchcard A doppelgänger or fetch is the ghostly double of a living person, a sinister form of bilocation. Sep 27, 2008
gangerh This is who I'd like to meet. Jan 29, 2008