Phantasmal

3 definitions found

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

  Phantasmal \Phan*tas"mal\, a.
     Pertaining to, of the nature of, or resembling, a phantasm;
     spectral; illusive.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  phantasmal
       adj : like or being a phantom; "a ghostly face at the window"; "a
             phantasmal presence in the room"; "spectral
             emanations"; "spiritual tappings at a seance" [syn: {apparitional},
              {ghostlike}, {ghostly}, {spectral}, {spiritual}]

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

  65 Moby Thesaurus words for "phantasmal":
     Barmecidal, Barmecide, aerial, air-built, airy, apparent,
     apparitional, astral, autistic, chimeric, cloud-born, cloud-built,
     cloud-woven, deceptive, delusional, delusionary, delusive,
     delusory, dereistic, dreamlike, dreamy, ectoplasmic, erroneous,
     ethereal, etheric, fallacious, false, fantastic, ghostish,
     ghostlike, ghostly, ghosty, illusional, illusionary, illusive,
     illusory, imaginary, incorporeal, misleading, ostensible,
     phantasmagoric, phantasmic, phantom, phantomic, phantomlike,
     psychic, seeming, self-deceptive, self-deluding, shadowy, specious,
     specterlike, spectral, spiritual, supernatural, supposititious,
     unactual, unfounded, unreal, unsubstantial, vaporous, vapory,
     visionary, wraithlike, wraithy