Phantasmal

Quick meaning: Phantasmal is an adjective meaning Of or pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, a phantasm (“something seen but having no physical reality”); imaginary, unreal.

Meaning

Of or pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, a phantasm (“something seen but having no physical reality”); imaginary, unreal.

Example Sentences

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.

Her secrets: old feather fans, tassled dancecards, powdered with musk, a gaud of amber beads in her locked drawer. […] Phantasmal mirth, folded away: muskperfumed.

[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.

Synonyms for phantasmal

Depending on context, synonyms include phantasmatic, phantasmatical, phantasmic, phantasmical, spectral, supernatural.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include spectral, ghostlike, ghostly, spiritual, apparitional, supernatural.

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