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phantasmagorical

phantasmagorical adjective: synonym of phantasmagoric.

Adjective

phantasmagorical (comparative more phantasmagorical, superlative most phantasmagorical)

  1. Synonym of phantasmagoric.
    • Accordingly, Hawthorne selects the Brook Farm episode (or a reflection of it) as affording his drama "a theatre, a little removed from the highway of ordinary travel, where the creatures of his brain may play their phantasmagorical antics, without exposing them to too close a comparison with the...1886, Julian Hawthorne, Confessions and Criticisms, ch. 3 "Americanism in Fiction"
    • "In my youth," he went on after a pause, "I found myself, quite fortuitously, involved in a series of the most phantasmagorical amorous intrigues.[…]"1921, Aldous Huxley, chapter XXV, in Crome Yellow, London: Chatto & Windus, page 305
    Synonyms:
    phantasmagoric

phantasmagorical meaning in Malayalam

phantasmagorical in Malayalam

psychedelic, dreamlike, kaleidoscopic
മായാദർശനപോലെയുള്ള, സ്വപ്നസദൃശമായ, സ്വപ്നസമാനമായ, ഛായാവലോകനമായ, വിഭ്രാമക, ചിത്രദർശിനിക്കുഴലിലൂടെ നോക്കുംപോലുള്ള

Synonyms of phantasmagorical

Forms of phantasmagorical

comparativemore phantasmagorical
superlativemost phantasmagorical

Origin of phantasmagorical

From phantasmagoria + -ical.

Words formed from phantasmagorical

Questions about phantasmagorical

What does phantasmagorical mean?
Phantasmagorical means synonym of phantasmagoric.
What is phantasmagorical in Malayalam?
Phantasmagorical in Malayalam is മായാദർശനപോലെയുള്ള, സ്വപ്നസദൃശമായ, സ്വപ്നസമാനമായ. See Phantasmagorical meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is phantasmagorical?
Phantasmagorical is an adjective.

Words near phantasmagorical in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: phantasmagorical (page history and authors); phantasmagorical (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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