Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to a phantasmagoria; phantasmagoric.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of, relating to, or resembling phantasmagoria; phantasmagoric.
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- adjective Alternative form of
phantasmagoric .
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Examples
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You go further and would touch the phantasmagorial veil.
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That ignorance was on prominent display after New Hampshire, as analysts groped to explain the primary results and came up with explanations that were as offensive as they were phantasmagorial.
Susan Faludi: The Correct Hillary Stereotype: Competence 2008
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In capitalist societies it is only the definite social relationships of men themselves, which in their eyes takes on the phantasmagorial form of a relation between things.
Commodity fetishism, Sign-value, and Seduction Tusar N Mohapatra 2005
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In capitalist societies it is only the definite social relationships of men themselves, which in their eyes takes on the phantasmagorial form of a relation between things.
Archive 2005-11-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2005
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The rest of the service was phantasmagorial background to that great reality — a phantasmagorial background a little inclined to stare.
Love and Mr Lewisham Herbert George 2004
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The change was almost phantasmagorial, as if the sun had burst through the fog upon that face: it became clear, bright, almost radiant.
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Jim's first impression of London was an ocean of flying mud, through which myriads of phantasmagorial creatures and things moved in sullen, unceasing procession; an all-enveloping wall of brown fog; and a roar like unto some monster in pain.
Colorado Jim George Goodchild
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He knew that he must seek them in their own social world, and to this he would surely be raised by his phantasmagorial income of thirty shillings a week.
The Fortunate Youth 1914
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The rest of the service was phantasmagorial background to that great reality -- a phantasmagorial background a little inclined to stare.
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But his pictures of nature are fine only as imaging the dreaminess, and obscurity, and confusion of distempered sleep; while all his agents pass before our eyes like shadows, and only impress and affect us with a phantasmagorial splendour.
Famous Reviews R. Brimley Johnson 1899
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