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fantasmal

fantasmal is the alternative spelling of phantasmal.

Meaning of phantasmal

Adjective

phantasmal (comparative more phantasmal, superlative most phantasmal)

  1. Of or pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, a phantasm (“something seen but having no physical reality”); imaginary, unreal.
    • The matter of which dreams are made / Not more endowed with actual life / Than this phantasmal portraiture / Of wandering human thought.1813, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Canto VII”, in Queen Mab; […], London: […] P. B. Shelley, […], →OCLC, page 98
    1. Of or pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, a phantom (“apparition or ghost”); ghostly, spectral.
    2. 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”).

Forms of fantasmal

comparativemore fantasmal
superlativemost fantasmal

Questions about fantasmal

What is fantasmal the alternative spelling of?
Fantasmal is the alternative spelling of phantasmal.

Words near fantasmal in the dictionary

  1. fantasizings
  2. fantasm
  3. fantasmagoria
  4. fantasmagorias
  5. fantasmagorical
  6. fantasmal
  7. fantasmascope
  8. fantasmatic
  9. fantasms
  10. fantasque
  11. fantast

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