Phantasmagorical
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Synonym of phantasmagoric.
"Accordingly, Hawthorne selects the Brook Farm episode (or a reflection of it) as affording his drama "a theatre, a little removed from the highway of ordinary travel, where the creatures of his brain may play their phantasmagorical antics, without exposing them to too close a comparison with the actual events of real lives.""
- 1 characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions wordnet
Example
More examples"Accordingly, Hawthorne selects the Brook Farm episode (or a reflection of it) as affording his drama "a theatre, a little removed from the highway of ordinary travel, where the creatures of his brain may play their phantasmagorical antics, without exposing them to too close a comparison with the actual events of real lives.""
Etymology
From phantasmagoria + -ical.
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