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Meaning of PHANTASMAGORIC

Pronunciation:  fan`tazmu'gorik

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [adj]  characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions; "a great concourse of phantasmagoric shadows"--J.C.Powys; "the incongruous imagery in surreal art and literature"
 
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 Synonyms: phantasmagorical, surreal, surrealistic, unrealistic
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Phan*tas`ma*gor"ic\, a.
Of or pertaining to phantasmagoria; phantasmagorial.
--Hawthorne.
 
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 Related Terms: airy, apparent, apparitional, autistic, Barmecidal, Barmecide, 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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