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phantasmagoric
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective phantasmagoric has 1 sense
- phantasmagoric(s = adj.all) phantasmagorical, surreal, surrealistic - characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions; "a great concourse of phantasmagoric shadows"; "the incongruous imagery in surreal art and literature" Derived form noun phantasmagoria1
CIDE DICTIONARY
phantasmagoric, a.
Of or pertaining to phantasmagoria; phantasmagorial. Hawthorne. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
phantasmagoric
Barmecidal, Barmecide, airy, apparent, apparitional, autistic, chimeric, deceptive, delusional, delusionary, delusive, delusory, dereistic, dreamlike, dreamy, erroneous, fallacious, false, fantastic, illusional, illusionary, illusive, illusory, imaginary, misleading, ostensible, phantasmal, phantom, seeming, self-deceptive, self-deluding, specious, spectral, supposititious, unactual, unfounded, unreal, unsubstantial, visionary
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