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phantasmagoric

phantasmagoric adjective: characterized by or pertaining to rapid changes in light intensity and colour.

Adjective

phantasmagoric (comparative more phantasmagoric, superlative most phantasmagoric)

  1. Characterized by or pertaining to rapid changes in light intensity and colour.
    • As early as 1965, however, Tom Wolfe sensed the importance of "electrographic architecture," the phantasmagoric billboards along 79.2000, Postmodern Studies, volume 28, page 127
  2. Characterized by or pertaining to a dreamlike blurring of real and imaginary elements.

Synonyms of phantasmagoric

Forms of phantasmagoric

comparativemore phantasmagoric
superlativemost phantasmagoric

Origin of phantasmagoric

From phantasmagoria + -ic.

Words formed from phantasmagoric

Questions about phantasmagoric

What does phantasmagoric mean?
Phantasmagoric means characterized by or pertaining to rapid changes in light intensity and colour.
What part of speech is phantasmagoric?
Phantasmagoric is an adjective.

Words near phantasmagoric in the dictionary

  1. phantasmagoria
  2. phantasmagorial
  3. phantasmagorially
  4. phantasmagorian
  5. phantasmagorias
  6. phantasmagoric
  7. phantasmagorical
  8. phantasmagorically
  9. phantasmagories
  10. phantasmagorist
  11. phantasmagorists

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