Ghost vs. Monster — What's the Difference?

In folklore, a ghost is the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that can appear to the living. In ghostlore, descriptions of ghosts vary widely from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes, to realistic, lifelike forms.

A large, ugly, and frightening imaginary creature

An apparition of a dead person which is believed to appear or become manifest to the living, typically as a nebulous image

A thing of extraordinary or daunting size

Act as ghostwriter of (a work)

A congenitally malformed or mutant animal or plant.

Glide smoothly and effortlessly

Criticize or reprimand severely

End a personal relationship with (someone) by suddenly and without explanation withdrawing from all communication

An imaginary or legendary creature, such as a centaur or Harpy, that combines parts from various animal or human forms.

The spirit of a dead person, especially one that is believed to appear to the living in bodily form or to haunt specific locations.

A creature having a strange or frightening appearance.

A person's spirit or soul

(Archaic) An organism that has structural defects or deformities.

A returning or haunting memory or image.

(Informal) A very large animal, plant, or object.

A slight or faint trace

One who inspires horror or disgust

The tiniest bit

(Informal) Extremely large; monstrous

An unwanted image on a television or radar screen caused by reflected waves.

A terrifying and dangerous creature. Category:en:Horror

A displaced image in a photograph caused by the optical system of the camera.

A bizarre or whimsical creature.

An unwanted spectral line caused by imperfections in a diffraction grating.

A cruel, heartless, or antisocial person, especially a criminal.

A displaced image in a mirror caused by reflection from the front of the glass.

A severely deformed person.

(Informal) A ghostwriter.

(figuratively) A badly behaved child, a brat.

A nonexistent publication listed in bibliographies.

(informal) Something unusually large.

A fictitious employee or business.

(informal) A prodigy; someone very talented in a specific domain.

(Physiology) A red blood cell having no hemoglobin.

(gaming) A non-player character that player(s) fight against in role-playing games.

(Informal) To engage in ghostwriting.

(informal) Very large; worthy of a monster.

To move noiselessly like a ghost

(informal) Great; very good; excellent.

(Informal) To cut off all communication with someone, especially a romantic or sexual partner, without providing an explanation

(transitive) To make into a monster; to categorise as a monster; to demonise.

To haunt.

(intransitive) To behave as a monster to; to terrorise.

(Informal) To ghostwrite

To harass.

(Informal) To cut off all communication with (someone), especially a romantic or sexual partner, without providing an explanation

To play (a series of) non-player characters as directed, without having the responsibility of organising the game itself; generally not limited to playing literal monsters or hostile combatants.

The spirit; the human soul.

Something of unnatural size, shape, or quality; a prodigy; an enormity; a marvel.

The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death.

Specifically , an animal or plant departing greatly from the usual type, as by having too many limbs.

Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image.

Any thing or person of unnatural or excessive ugliness, deformity, wickedness, or cruelty.

A false image formed in a telescope, camera, or other optical device by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.

Monstrous in size.

An unwanted image similar to and overlapping or adjacent to the main one on a television screen, caused by the transmitted image being received both directly and via reflection.

Enormous or very powerful.

A ghostwriter.

To make monstrous.

A nonexistent person invented to obtain some fraudulent benefit.

An imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts

A dead person whose identity is stolen by another. See ghosting.

Someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful

(Internet) An unresponsive user on IRC, resulting from the user's client disconnecting without notifying the server.

A person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed

(computing) An image of a file or hard disk.

A cruel wicked and inhuman person

(theatre) An understudy.

(medicine) a grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus

(espionage) A covert (and deniable) agent.

The faint image that remains after an attempt to remove graffiti.

(video games) An opponent in a racing game that follows a previously recorded route, allowing players to compete against previous best times.

Someone whose identity cannot be established because there are no records of him/her.

(quantum physics) An unphysical state in a gauge theory.

A formerly nonexistent character that was at some point mistakenly encoded into a character set standard, which might have since become used opportunistically for some genuine purpose.

(countable) ghost pepper

(uncountable) A game in which players take turns to add a letter to a possible word, trying not to complete a word.

White or pale.

Transparent or translucent.

(attributive) Abandoned.

(attributive) Remnant; the remains of a(n).

(attributive) Perceived or listed but not real.

(attributive) Of cryptid, supernatural or extraterrestrial nature.

(attributive) Substitute.

To haunt; to appear to in the form of an apparition.

(obsolete) To die; to expire.

(literary) To imbue with a ghost-like hue or effect.

(ambitransitive) To ghostwrite.

(nautical) To sail seemingly without wind.

(computing) To copy a file or hard drive image.

(GUI) To gray out (a visual item) to indicate that it is unavailable.

To forcibly disconnect an IRC user who is using one's reserved nickname.

(intransitive) To appear or move without warning, quickly and quietly; to slip.

(transitive) To transfer (a prisoner) to another prison without the prior knowledge of other inmates.

(slang) To kill.

To perform an act of ghosting: to break up with someone without warning or explanation; to ignore someone, especially on social media.

(film) To provide the speaking or singing voice for another actor, who is lip-syncing.

The spirit; the soul of man.

The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.

Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea.

A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.

To die; to expire.

To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition.

A mental representation of some haunting experience;

A writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else

The visible disembodied soul of a dead person

A suggestion of some quality;

Move like a ghost;

Haunt like a ghost; pursue;

Write for someone else;