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
He knew that he must seek them in their own social world, and to this he would surely be raised by his phantasmagorial income of thirty shillings a week.
From The Fortunate Youth by William John Locke
You go further and would touch the phantasmagorial veil.
From The Kempton-Wace Letters by Jack London
For then dreams came visibly into his chambers, and before his mind's eye waved immense phantasmagorial adventures.
From The Dark Goddess by Richard Sharpe Shaver
