PHANTASMAGORIC Synonyms: 73 Similar and Opposite Words

phantasmagoric

adjective

variants or phantasmagorical

Definition of phantasmagoric

as in hallucinatory

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Recent Examples of phantasmagoric Over the course of one phantasmagoric evening, Robin witnesses events that prefigure the Revolutionary War. — John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 15 June 2026 Right around that time, the Venice Film Festival saw Mamoru Hosoda’s anime epic Scarlet, in which the Danish prince became an ass-kicking Danish princess consigned to a hellish and phantasmagoric underworld. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2026 The action is punctuated by flash-frame collages that bring earlier and later observations together in a tumble of associations and hint at the drama’s mystical, phantasmagorical essence. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2026 Today, the public district collection comprises some 35 large-scale murals, sculptures and installations, including the phantasmagoric exterior of its Museum Garage. — Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 30 Nov. 2025 The Land of Spooks is a phantasmagorical blend of twisting gothic spires, impossible land formations, and disconcerting expressionist proportions. — Kambole Campbell, IndieWire, 4 Nov. 2025 As the two keepers' accelerating madness batters their already uneasy relationship, the film becomes a phantasmagorical endurance test, with the two antagonistic leads hurling themselves against their tight confinement. — Dennis Perkins, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for phantasmagoric

Adjective

Paramount+ delivered the main full trailer for season 4 on June 15, 2026, and it’s packed with dinosaurs, cowboys, horses, space storms, dreams, nightmares, fire-breathing dragons, haunted spaceships, and hallucinatory pleasure planets.

— Jeff Spry, Space.com, 23 July 2026
Bretisilocin is a 5HT-2a receptor agonist producing hallucinatory and psychedelic-like effects with a duration of 60-90 minutes.

— Robert Glatter, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026

Definition of hallucinatory

Adjective

Conversations need grounding as intuitive Moon in your 3rd House of Communication opposes illusory Neptune in your 9th House of Travel and Learning, so facts and visions compete.

— Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 22 June 2026
That is, real, not merely illusory, measures, so that the allure to breach peace for imagined gains is overshadowed.

— Keith Tidman, Baltimore Sun, 15 June 2026

Definition of illusory

Adjective

Its Escape to Moominvalley exhibition, open through October 2026, examines how architecture, home and landscape shaped the imaginary world created by Finnish artist and author Tove Jansson.

— David Nikel, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
Anyway, Will Venable has my imaginary vote, though Mike Vasil's wizardry might be the bigger reason why the White Sox are rolling.

— Andy McCullough, New York Times, 17 July 2026

Definition of imaginary

Adjective

It is set in Mano Majra, a fictional village on the new frontier between India and Pakistan, where Sikh and Muslim families have lived together peacefully for generations.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026
Joanne Miller is a fictional agent who in the film leads the manhunt for the adult Ted and uses the words in the Unabomber’s manifesto to track him down.

— Brian Truitt, USA Today, 29 July 2026

Definition of fictional

Adjective

But the samurai genre already presupposes a fictitious otherworldly place, and everyday normalcy simply doesn’t exist there, Kurosawa said.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 July 2026
Here are three fictitious, but realistic, examples that reflect how different promotions may work.

— Louis DeNicola, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026

Definition of fictitious

Adjective

Carrington, who died in 2011, devoted the final 17 years of her life to creating bronze figures and masks, conjuring her chimeric cast out of the canvas and into our own.

— Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 13 June 2026
To overcome the tumor microenvironment, researchers have developed a treatment called chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy, known as CAR-T therapy for short.

— Charles J. Dimitroff, The Conversation, 12 June 2026

Definition of chimerical

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