doppelgänger
Uncanny lookalike stranger
A doppelgänger is a ghostly double of a living person, or more loosely, someone who looks strikingly like someone else: I saw your doppelgänger at the grocery store.
In folklore, seeing one's own doppelgänger was an omen of death.
The word comes from German, literally "double-goer." The umlaut is often dropped in English: doppelganger.
One who closely resembles another
- twinOne of matched pair
- duplicateExact replica of original
- cloneGenetically identical organism
- replicaFaithful scaled reproduction
copy · carbon-copy · counterpart · dead-ringer · ringer · impersonator · stand-in · understudy
Visible supernatural manifestation
- phantomInsubstantial apparition
- specterGhostly threatening presence
- wraithSpectral apparition of someone
- fetchGo get and return
shade · spirit · ghost · revenant · eidolon · harbinger · omen · portent
Disturbingly strange
- unsettlingCausing unease or discomfort
- creepyDisturbingly strange
- sinisterThreateningly suggestive of harm
- disquietingCausing unease or worry
disturbing · chilling · otherworldly · strange · bizarre · surreal · dread · foreboding
lookalike
One who closely resembles another
replica · copy · carbon-copy · counterpart · dead-ringer · ringer · impersonator · stand-in · understudy · match
apparition
Visible supernatural manifestation
- phantomInsubstantial apparition
- specterGhostly threatening presence
- wraithSpectral apparition of someone
fetch · shade · spirit · ghost · revenant · eidolon · harbinger · omen · portent · bilocation
changeling
Substituted fairy child
- fetchGo get and return
eerie
Disturbingly strange
- unsettlingCausing unease or discomfort
- creepyDisturbingly strange
- sinisterThreateningly suggestive of harm
disquieting · disturbing · chilling · otherworldly · strange · bizarre · surreal · dread · foreboding · impostor
doppelgängeroriginal
First or inventive
one of a kind · sui generis · nonpareil · irreplaceable · prototype
doppelgängeroriginal
First or inventive
authentic self · true self · prototype · source · primary
doppelgängerpolar opposite
Complete contrary in nature
antithesis · opposite · complete stranger · dissimilar · opposite number
double, doubled, doubling, doubles, doubler, doublers, doppelgängers