phantasmagoric

variants or phantasmagorical

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for phantasmagoric
Adjective
  • In Spark, the effect is hallucinatory, resulting in a type of hyperreality that, to me, constitutes an interesting representation of the intellectual experience of femininity.
    Rachel Cusk, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Alternating between 2004 and the early 1980s, evoked in hallucinatory, grainy flashbacks, Romería achingly dramatizes the processes of creating new memories and holding onto fleeting ones.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 5 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The episode ends with a surreal, graphic deepfake scene of a totally nude Donald Trump stumbling around a desert.
    Nick Marx, The Conversation, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The flashbacks of a city shut down, subways closed, and the surreal journey home.
    Ayisha Miracle Mendez, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Any thought of stability is illusory; no patch of molecules dances in isolation.
    Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Preparation for the Next Life is being released in a moment of strife and fever-pitch arguments about the American Dream — its perils and illusory qualities especially for those who have migrated to a country so primed on their exploitation.
    Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Few characters, real or imaginary, have sustained this type of stage and screen presence for so many decades.
    Michael Taube, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • But Laura, used to getting away with murder, just neglected Daniel’s imaginary corpse after conjuring it.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • To respond to a volatile inflation crisis, should the CEO of Burger & Bites, a fictional fast-food chain, introduce dynamic pricing to its restaurants?
    Elie Ofek, Harvard Business Review, 14 Sep. 2025
  • College football fan favorite Fansville, a satirical episodic drama from Dr Pepper set in a fictional college town, is returning for its eighth season.
    Kristi Dosh, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The mockumentary about a fictitious paper company in Scranton, Pennsylvania aired from 2005 to 2013.
    Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The bad news about this fictitious mountainside hole-in-the-wall?
    Tim McGovern, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Advertisement But this victory proved chimerical.
    Time, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Projections of economic gains from major sporting events are typically optimistic, euphoric, chimerical or conjectural.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2025
Adjective
  • This isn’t callousness or delusive optimism but, rather, a rebellion against the suffocating expectation that the elderly have foreclosed the possibility of joy.
    Hillary Kelly, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2024
  • To separate art from its historical framework is futile, and to reject it in an effort to censor past violence is a delusive act of virtue signaling.
    WSJ, WSJ, 5 July 2022
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“Phantasmagoric.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/phantasmagoric. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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