All boogeyman synonyms

noun boogeyman

• 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.
• gremlin — a mischievous invisible being, said by airplane pilots in World War II to cause engine trouble and mechanical difficulties.
• scare — to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.
• hobgoblin — something causing superstitious fear; a bogy.
• ogre — a monster in fairy tales and popular legend, usually represented as a hideous giant who feeds on human flesh.
• apprehension — Apprehension is a feeling of fear that something bad may happen.
• bugaboo — Something or someone that is your bugaboo worries or upsets you.
• fear — a river in SE North Carolina. 202 miles (325 km) long.
• bogey — A bogey is something or someone that people are worried about, perhaps without much cause or reason.
• dread — to fear greatly; be in extreme apprehension of: to dread death.
• threat — a declaration of an intention or determination to inflict punishment, injury, etc., in retaliation for, or conditionally upon, some action or course; menace: He confessed under the threat of imprisonment.
• terror — intense, sharp, overmastering fear: to be frantic with terror.
• problem — any question or matter involving doubt, uncertainty, or difficulty.
• goblin — a grotesque sprite or elf that is mischievous or malicious toward people.
• specter — a visible incorporeal spirit, especially one of a terrifying nature; ghost; phantom; apparition.
• wraith — an apparition of a living person supposed to portend his or her death.
• loup-garou — a werewolf; lycanthrope.
• bogy — an imaginary evil being or spirit; goblin
• phantom — an apparition or specter.
• 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.
• bogeyman — A bogeyman is someone whose ideas or actions are disapproved of by some people, and who is described by them as evil or unpleasant in order to make other people afraid.
• 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.
• phantasma — phantasm (defs 1, 2).
• spook — Informal. a ghost; specter.
• 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.
• bete noire — If you refer to someone or something as your bete noire, you mean that you have a particular dislike for them or that they annoy you a great deal.
• bogle — a scarecrow
• bogyman — boogeyman
• boogieman — bogeyman.