Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as phantasmagoric.
Wiktionary
- adj. alternative form of phantasmagoric.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions
Examples
“The manuscript was locked in his desk until a year after his death and has been described as a phantasmagorical crime story in which a petty thief and murderer finds himself trapped in a cosmic police station where he learns about atomic theory and "the intertwined destinies of men and bicycles.”
The Wall Street Journal: Flann O'Brien: Tall Tales, Long Drink
“A subplot weaves in phantasmagorical elements such as a giant escaped tiger that is ravaging the Upper East Side, that bastion of old money and property.”
“The novel is a gut-wrenching, soul-churning, emotional wreck, bringing to mind some Harlan Ellison's "phantasmagorical" hara-kiris - combined with Raymond Chandler, no less.”
“Olivier Dahan's long, harrowing and phantasmagorical biopic doesn't bother with such events as World War II, which slips by unnoticed.”
“Intense and phantasmagorical, his semi-abstract compositions have a highly theatrical flair, which shouldn't be a surprise considering his highly acclaimed collaboration with Peter Sellers for opera productions presented all over the world.”
The Huffington Post: Edward Goldman: Dark, Sexy, Provocative. The Choice Is Yours
“Free Fiction and Stuff [courtesy of the phantasmagorical QuasarDragon]”
“And if that is not enough, there are tiny choo-choo trains running in all direction on the floor, further reinforcing the phantasmagorical sense of the whole enterprise.”
The Huffington Post: Edward Goldman: It Sure Isn't Pretty, but Boy is it Beautiful
“The Prague Cemetery," Umberto Eco's phantasmagorical revisiting of the anti-Semitic forgery "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," is a literary tour de force.”
“His phantasmagorical images burst with color and one can feel his brush still dancing around the edges.”
The Huffington Post: Edward Goldman: Young Men and a Lot of Chocolate
“Like a person in pain whose mind reverts to beautiful meadows as a means of distraction, the brain is suddenly filled with phantasmagorical visions of burlesque aliens on ecstasy, covered in rainbow sprinkle icing foam party orgy sparkles.”
The Huffington Post: Angora Holly Polo: The Turin Horse (A Torinói Ló)
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘phantasmagorical’.
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humpty's list
detrimental, hedonism, exonerate, extemporaneous, labyrinth, diffidence, brazen, celerity, alacrity, bigotry, phantasmagorical, sardonic and 14 more...
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Higgledy-Piggledy
Useful double dactyls
antediluvian, post-penitentiary, anthropomorphic, non-complimentary, polyprogenitor, metapoetical, non-tautological, not unintelligent, donor-dysfunctional, eeksily-peeksily, phantasmagorical, plenipotentiary and 82 more...
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Double Dactyls
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_dactyl
http...antediluvian, incontrovertible, incontrovertible, gubernatorial, microanatomy, higgledy piggledy, valedictorian, lexicographical, animadversional, labiovelarize, sesquipedalian, fan-fucking-tastical and 86 more...
humpty The goddam foul black tiers of flak were bursting and billowing and booming all around and above and below him in a climbing, cracking, staggered, banging, phantasmagorical, cosmological wickedness that jarred and tossed and shivered, clattered and pierced, and threatened to annihilate them all in one splinter of a second in one vast flash of fire - CATCH 22, Page 55 Jul 2, 2009
~(* a constantly shifting complex succession of things seen or imagined; a scene that constantly changes Sep 16, 2008
drumr4evr a bizarre or fantastic combination, collection, or assemblage
Sep 12, 2007