phantasmagoric
adjective
having a fantastic or deceptive appearance, as something in a dream or created by the imagination.
phantasmagorial
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a variation of
phantasmagoric.
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a word derived from
phantasmagoria.
phantasmagorianouna shifting series of phantasms, illusions, or deceptive appearances, as in a dream or as created by the imagination.
Example Sentences
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Too many of the people we call pundits looked at him and his ridiculous digital trading cards and saw the phantasmagorial grandiose delusions of someone with superpowers not to be taken seriously.
From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2024
Though his mind is finer than his means, Gelber is an intellectual twister and swinger with a phantasmagorial sense of the present.
From Time Magazine Archive
The memory of it was lost amongst the crowded events of that phantasmagorial night.
From Poppy The Story of a South African Girl by Cynthia Stockley
You go further and would touch the phantasmagorial veil.
From The Kempton-Wace Letters by Jack London
The sun, a lurid, red sun, went down behind the hills, and a twilight that seemed to Dick and Albert phantasmagorial and shot with red crept over the earth.
From The Last of the Chiefs A Story of the Great Sioux War by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler
