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/fænˈtæzml̩/ · adjective
Of or pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, a phantasm (“something seen but having no physical reality”); imaginary, unreal..
The matter of which dreams are made / Not more endowed with actual life / Than this phantasmal portraiture / Of wandering human thought.
Mr. Audley, the chairman, was an amiable, elderly man who still wore Gladstone collars; he was a kind of symbol of all that phantasmal and yet fixed society.
[H]e had heard about him the constant voices of his father and of his masters, urging him to be a gentleman above all things and urging him to be a good catholic above all things. […] And it was the din of all these hollowsounding voices that made him halt irresolutely in the pursuit of phantoms. He gave them ear only for a time but he was happy only when he was far from them, beyond their call, alone or in the company of phantasmal comrades.
Her secrets: old feather fans, tassled dancecards, powdered with musk, a gaud of amber beads in her locked drawer. […] Phantasmal mirth, folded away: muskperfumed.
Use phantasmal when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Phantasmal means Of or pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, a phantasm (“something seen but having no physical reality”); imaginary, unreal..
Common synonyms include phantasmatic, phantasmatical, phantasmic, phantasmical.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The matter of which dreams are made / Not more endowed with actual life / Than this phantasmal portraiture / Of wandering human thought.
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