Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
phantasmagoric .
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- adjective Alternative form of
phantasmagoric .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions
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Examples
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A subplot weaves in phantasmagorical elements such as a giant escaped tiger that is ravaging the Upper East Side, that bastion of old money and property.
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The manuscript was locked in his desk until a year after his death and has been described as a phantasmagorical crime story in which a petty thief and murderer finds himself trapped in a cosmic police station where he learns about atomic theory and "the intertwined destinies of men and bicycles."
Flann O'Brien: Tall Tales, Long Drink Allen Barra 2011
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The novel is a gut-wrenching, soul-churning, emotional wreck, bringing to mind some Harlan Ellison's "phantasmagorical" hara-kiris - combined with Raymond Chandler, no less.
Universe at Play: Two Must-Read Novels of the Fantastic 2009
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Intense and phantasmagorical, his semi-abstract compositions have a highly theatrical flair, which shouldn't be a surprise considering his highly acclaimed collaboration with Peter Sellers for opera productions presented all over the world.
Edward Goldman: Dark, Sexy, Provocative. The Choice Is Yours Edward Goldman 2011
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Intense and phantasmagorical, his semi-abstract compositions have a highly theatrical flair, which shouldn't be a surprise considering his highly acclaimed collaboration with Peter Sellers for opera productions presented all over the world.
Edward Goldman: Dark, Sexy, Provocative. The Choice Is Yours Edward Goldman 2011
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Olivier Dahan's long, harrowing and phantasmagorical biopic doesn't bother with such events as World War II, which slips by unnoticed.
We'll Always Have Allen's 'Paris' Joe Morgenstern 2011
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Intense and phantasmagorical, his semi-abstract compositions have a highly theatrical flair, which shouldn't be a surprise considering his highly acclaimed collaboration with Peter Sellers for opera productions presented all over the world.
Edward Goldman: Dark, Sexy, Provocative. The Choice Is Yours Edward Goldman 2011
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Free Fiction and Stuff [courtesy of the phantasmagorical QuasarDragon]
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Intense and phantasmagorical, his semi-abstract compositions have a highly theatrical flair, which shouldn't be a surprise considering his highly acclaimed collaboration with Peter Sellers for opera productions presented all over the world.
Edward Goldman: Dark, Sexy, Provocative. The Choice Is Yours Edward Goldman 2011
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Intense and phantasmagorical, his semi-abstract compositions have a highly theatrical flair, which shouldn't be a surprise considering his highly acclaimed collaboration with Peter Sellers for opera productions presented all over the world.
Edward Goldman: Dark, Sexy, Provocative. The Choice Is Yours Edward Goldman 2011
drumr4evr commented on the word phantasmagorical
a bizarre or fantastic combination, collection, or assemblage
September 13, 2007
~(* commented on the word phantasmagorical
a constantly shifting complex succession of things seen or imagined; a scene that constantly changes
September 16, 2008
humpty commented on the word phantasmagorical
The goddam foul black tiers of flak were bursting and billowing and booming all around and above and below him in a climbing, cracking, staggered, banging, phantasmagorical, cosmological wickedness that jarred and tossed and shivered, clattered and pierced, and threatened to annihilate them all in one splinter of a second in one vast flash of fire - CATCH 22, Page 55
July 2, 2009