All bogeyman synonyms

noun bogeyman

• ghost — the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.
• goblin — a grotesque sprite or elf that is mischievous or malicious toward people.
• phantasma — phantasm (defs 1, 2).
• spook — Informal. a ghost; specter.
• bogey — A bogey is something or someone that people are worried about, perhaps without much cause or reason.
• phantasm — an apparition or specter.
• spirit — the principle of conscious life; the vital principle in humans, animating the body or mediating between body and soul.
• wraith — an apparition of a living person supposed to portend his or her death.
• boogeyman — a frightening imaginary being, often one used as a threat in disciplining children
• phantom — an apparition or specter.
• hobgoblin — something causing superstitious fear; a bogy.
• monster — a legendary animal combining features of animal and human form or having the forms of various animals in combination, as a centaur, griffin, or sphinx.
• bugbear — Something or someone that is your bugbear worries or upsets you.
• visitant — a temporary resident; visitor; guest.
• apparition — An apparition is someone you see or think you see but who is not really there as a physical being.
• bugaboo — Something or someone that is your bugaboo worries or upsets you.
• specter — a visible incorporeal spirit, especially one of a terrifying nature; ghost; phantom; apparition.
• boggle — If you say that the mind boggles at something or that something boggles the mind, you mean that it is so strange or amazing that it is difficult to imagine or understand.
• bogle — a scarecrow
• bogyman — boogeyman
• boogieman — bogeyman.