The matter of which dreams are made / Not more endowed with actual life / Than this phantasmal portraiture / Of wandering human thought.
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Phantasmal
//fænˈtæzml̩//
Synonyms for "phantasmal" (93 found)
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Related words (46)
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1 entriesTranslations
7 translations across 7 languages.
Esperanto
1 entries- fantoma adj (of or pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, a phantom — see also ghostly, spectral)
Finnish
1 entries- aavemainen adj (of or pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, a phantom — see also ghostly, spectral)
French
1 entries- fantasmatique adj (of or pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, a phantom — see also ghostly, spectral)
Italian
1 entries- fantasmatico adj (of or pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, a phantom — see also ghostly, spectral)
Romanian
1 entries- fantasmatic adj (of or pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, a phantom — see also ghostly, spectral)
Russian
1 entries- при́зрачный adj (of or pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, a phantom — see also ghostly, spectral)
Spanish
1 entries- fantasmal adj (of or pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, a phantom — see also ghostly, spectral)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
Mr. Audley, the chairman, was an amiable, elderly man who still wore Gladstone collars; he was a kind of symbol of all that phantasmal and yet fixed society.
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[H]e had heard about him the constant voices of his father and of his masters, urging him to be a gentleman above all things and urging him to be a good catholic above all things. […] And it was the din of all these hollowsounding voices that made him halt irresolutely in the pursuit of phantoms. He gave them ear only for a time but he was happy only when he was far from them, beyond their call, alone or in the company of phantasmal comrades.
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Her secrets: old feather fans, tassled dancecards, powdered with musk, a gaud of amber beads in her locked drawer. […] Phantasmal mirth, folded away: muskperfumed.
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