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phantasmal

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10 lettersPronunciation /fænˈtæzml̩/Part of speech adjectiveSorted aaahlmnpstStarts with PEnds with L0 clues
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Definitions

  1. resembling or characteristic of a phantom

Word origin

From phantasm or phantasma (“phantasm”) + -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives).

Used in a sentence

  • The matter of which dreams are made / Not more endowed with actual life / Than this phantasmal portraiture / Of wandering human thought.
  • 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.
  • 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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