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phantasmal

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of the nature of a phantasm or illusion; unreal; spectral.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Pertaining to, of the nature of, or resembling, a phantasm; spectral; illusive.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to ghosts or phantoms.
  • adjective Eerie or frightening.
  • adjective Expresses qualities of or produced from fantasy.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective resembling or characteristic of a phantom

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Examples

  • Some of them begin with the appearances of ghostly wrongdoers and phantasmal murders, but in the end they are revealed to be hoaxes or misapprehensions of the Scooby Doo ilk.

    Book Review: The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Fandomania 2010

  • The ancient killing spirit unleashed on Fairgeth became a large man in a white ape suit—formidable, easier to create, but hardly phantasmal and not as menacing.

    The Codex Continual » Bulwark Media: Max Dawes 2009

  • Consider Ecuador's endangered phantasmal poison frog -- smaller than a dime, but an extract from its skin blocks pain 200 times more effectively than morphine, seemingly without addiction and other serious side effects.

    Peter Seligmann: America's Commitment to Nature: Another Endangered Species? Peter Seligmann 2010

  • The Wordless Music Orchestra, clad in phantasmal white, performed Gavin Bryars ' 1969 piece "The Sinking of the Titanic."

    All Aboard the RMS Guggenheim Kimberly Chou 2011

  • Consider Ecuador's endangered phantasmal poison frog -- smaller than a dime, but an extract from its skin blocks pain 200 times more effectively than morphine, seemingly without addiction and other serious side effects.

    Peter Seligmann: America's Commitment to Nature: Another Endangered Species? Peter Seligmann 2010

  • Consider Ecuador's endangered phantasmal poison frog -- smaller than a dime, but an extract from its skin blocks pain 200 times more effectively than morphine, seemingly without addiction and other serious side effects.

    Peter Seligmann: America's Commitment to Nature: Another Endangered Species? Peter Seligmann 2010

  • I'm using my eternal rest to the full, though - my spectral pottery skills are coming along nicely, and I'm pretty hopeful that I'll get to cop another phantasmal feel of Demi Moore's norks.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Dungeekin 2009

  • He could often be found sitting cross-legged onstage, using just his guitar, his beat-boxing skills and a battery of effects pedals to concoct phantasmal full bands.

    Rocking the Mic Andy Beta 2011

  • I'm using my eternal rest to the full, though - my spectral pottery skills are coming along nicely, and I'm pretty hopeful that I'll get to cop another phantasmal feel of Demi Moore's norks.

    Swayze Condemns 'Reckless' Rumours Dungeekin 2009

  • Meanwhile the Usual Suspects ™ witter on about that phantasmal, oxymoronic contruction, "liberal fascism."

    Archive 2009-02-01 2009

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