Phantasmagoric

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Phantasmagoric \Phan*tas`ma*gor"ic\, a.
     Of or pertaining to phantasmagoria; phantasmagorial.
     --Hawthorne.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  phantasmagoric
       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" [syn: {phantasmagorical}, {surreal},
              {surrealistic}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  39 Moby Thesaurus words for "phantasmagoric":
     Barmecidal, Barmecide, airy, apparent, apparitional, autistic,
     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