phantasmal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fænˈtæzml̩/
ipa: /fænˈtæzməl/
Forms: form: more phantasmal
form: most phantasmal
form: fantasmal
Etymology: From phantasm or phantasma (“phantasm”) + -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives).
Senses: examples: text: The matter of which dreams are made / Not more endowed with actual life / Than this phantasmal portraiture / Of wandering human thought.
ref: 1813, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Canto VII”, in Queen Mab; […], London: […] P. B. Shelley, […], →OCLC, page 98:
text: 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.
ref: 1910 October 1, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, “The Queer Feet”, in The Innocence of Father Brown, London; New York, N.Y.: Cassell and Company, published 1911, →OCLC, page 80:
text: [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.
ref: 1916 December 29, James Joyce, chapter II, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 93:
text: Her secrets: old feather fans, tassled dancecards, powdered with musk, a gaud of amber beads in her locked drawer. […] Phantasmal mirth, folded away: muskperfumed.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 10:
synonyms: phantasmatic
phantasmatical
phantasmic
phantasmical
phantomatic
glosses: Of or pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, a phantasm (“something seen but having no physical reality”); imaginary, unreal.
synonyms: word: phantasmatic
word: phantasmatical
word: phantasmic
word: phantasmical
word: phantomatic
word: apparitional
word: ghastly
word: ghostish
word: ghostlike
word: ghostly
word: phantomic
word: phantomlike
word: phantasmal
word: phantasmic
word: spectral
word: spooky
word: wraithlike
word: wraithy
glosses: Of or pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, a phantasm (“something seen but having no physical reality”); imaginary, unreal.
Of or pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, a phantom (“apparition or ghost”); ghostly, spectral.
topics: parapsychology
pseudoscience
synonyms: phantasmatic
phantasmatical
phantasmic
phantasmical
phantomatic
glosses: Of or pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, a phantasm (“something seen but having no physical reality”); imaginary, unreal.
Of or pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, a phantasm (“perception or vision of a living or dead person who is not physically present, often through telepathy”).
Derived terms: word: phantasmalian
word: phantasmality
word: phantasmally
Related terms: word: fantasmatic
word: phantasmatic
word: phantasm
word: phantasma
word: phantasmagoria
word: phantasmatical
word: phantasmic
word: phantasmical
word: phantasmically
word: phantastic
word: phantastical
word: phantastically
word: phantasy
word: phantom
word: phantomatic