phantasmagoric
adjective
having a fantastic or deceptive appearance, as something in a dream or created by the imagination.
phantasmagorical
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a variation of
phantasmagoric.
Example Sentences
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Traditionally, the weird, unnerving and phantasmagorical have not been welcome features in mainstream Hollywood animation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
It felt very spectral and almost phantasmagorical and certainly not a depiction of a truth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025
The image he shot is almost phantasmagorical: the elephant underwater, her legs kicking, her gray body swaddled in blue water, a handler in a red shirt atop her.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2022
When I spoke to Mogelson, he said that an important thing separating the United States from the war-ravaged countries he’s worked in is the phantasmagorical nature of the American far right’s complaints.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 11, 2022
In The Green Cockatoo the poet has seen his theme in a sort of phantasmagorical perspective; he plays with reality and appearance in a play within a play which is unique in literature.
From The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature by Various
