Phantasmagorical
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Phantasmagorical is an adjective meaning Synonym of phantasmagoric.
Meaning
Synonym of phantasmagoric.
Example Sentences
"In my youth," he went on after a pause, "I found myself, quite fortuitously, involved in a series of the most phantasmagorical amorous intrigues.[…]"
Accordingly, Hawthorne selects the Brook Farm episode (or a reflection of it) as affording his drama "a theatre, a little removed from the highway of ordinary travel, where the creatures of his brain may play their phantasmagorical antics, without exposing them to too close a comparison with the actual events of real lives."
Synonyms for phantasmagorical
Depending on context, synonyms include phantasmagoric, surreal, unrealistic.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include surreal, unrealistic, phantasmagorial, phantasmagorian, phantasmical, fantasmagorical.
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