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phantasmal

[ fan-taz-muhl ]

adjective

  1. pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral:

    phantasmal creatures of nightmare.



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Other 51Թ Forms

  • 󲹲t·i·ٲ noun
  • 󲹲·ٲm· 󲹲·ٲm·· 󲹲t·i·· adverb
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of phantasmal1

First recorded in 1805–15; phantasm + -al 1
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This phantasmal region holds a particular lure for Osborn—not simply to uncover its hidden biodiversity but also to find out how living things can survive such extreme conditions.

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That phantasmal sound, that subliminal beat, untethered to time but bound to the Earth, informed Gay’s approach to the album.

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The lighting transforms them into phantasmal silhouettes, like blurred figures from an old photograph album.

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According to Kröger and Anderson, her ghost stories form a “phantasmal paradigm shift” in the evolution of the genre.

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But that’s the effect of this clever writer who undulates so eerily from phantasmal excess to psychological realism.

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