"phantasmal" meaning in English

See phantasmal in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

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Etymology: From phantasm or phantasma (“phantasm”) + -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*bʰeh₂-|*h₂el-|id=shine|id2=grow}}, {{glossary|suffix}} suffix, {{glossary|adjective}} adjective, {{suffix|en|phantasma|al|pos2=suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives|t1=phantasm}} phantasma (“phantasm”) + -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives) Head templates: {{en-adj}} 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.
    Of or pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, a phantom (“apparition or ghost”); ghostly, spectral.
    Synonyms: phantasmatic, phantasmatical, phantasmic, phantasmical, phantomatic, ghostly
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  2. Of or pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, a phantasm (“something seen but having no physical reality”); imaginary, unreal.
    (parapsychology) 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”).
    Categories (topical): Parapsychology Synonyms: phantasmatic, phantasmatical, phantasmic, phantasmical, phantomatic
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  3. Of or pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, a phantasm (“something seen but having no physical reality”); imaginary, unreal. Synonyms: phantasmatic, phantasmatical, phantasmic, phantasmical, phantomatic
    Sense id: en-phantasmal-en-adj-rW2wudWF
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: fantasmal Derived forms: phantasmalian [obsolete, rare], phantasmality, phantasmally Translations (of or pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, a phantom — see also ghostly, spectral): fantoma (Esperanto), aavemainen (Finnish), fantasmatique (French), fantasmatico (Italian), fantasmatic (Romanian), при́зрачный (prízračnyj) (Russian), fantasmal (Spanish)
Related terms: fantasmatic, phantasmatic, phantasm, phantasma, phantasmagoria, phantasmatical, phantasmic, phantasmical, phantasmically, phantastical [dated], phantastically [dated], phantastic [dated], phantasy, phantom, phantomatic Disambiguation of 'of or pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, a phantom — see also ghostly, spectral': 39 32 29

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        "Of or pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, a phantasm (“something seen but having no physical reality”); imaginary, unreal.",
        "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”)."
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          "text": "The matter of which dreams are made / Not more endowed with actual life / Than this phantasmal portraiture / Of wandering human thought.",
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          "ref": "1910 October 1, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, “The Queer Feet”, in The Innocence of Father Brown, London, New York, N.Y.: Cassell and Company, published 1911, →OCLC, page 80:",
          "text": "Mr. Audley, the chairman, was an amiable, elderly man who still wore Gladstone collars; he was a kind of symbol of all that phantasmal and yet fixed society.",
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          "ref": "1916 December 29, James Joyce, chapter II, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 93:",
          "text": "[H]e had heard about him the constant voices of his father and of his masters, urging him to be a gentleman above all things and urging him to be a good catholic above all things. […] And it was the din of all these hollowsounding voices that made him halt irresolutely in the pursuit of phantoms. He gave them ear only for a time but he was happy only when he was far from them, beyond their call, alone or in the company of phantasmal comrades.",
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          "ref": "1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 10:",
          "text": "Her secrets: old feather fans, tassled dancecards, powdered with musk, a gaud of amber beads in her locked drawer. […] Phantasmal mirth, folded away: muskperfumed.",
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      "sense": "of or pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, a phantom — see also ghostly, spectral",
      "word": "fantoma"
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