phantasmagorical
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English
Etymology
From phantasmagoria + -ical.[1]
Adjective
phantasmagorical (comparative more phantasmagorical, superlative most phantasmagorical)
- Synonym of phantasmagoric
- 1886, Julian Hawthorne, Confessions and Criticisms, ch. 3 "Americanism in Fiction":
- 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 actual events of real lives."
- 1921, Aldous Huxley, chapter XXV, in Crome Yellow, London: Chatto & Windus, page 305:
- "In my youth," he went on after a pause, "I found myself, quite fortuitously, involved in a series of the most phantasmagorical amorous intrigues. […]"
- 1886, Julian Hawthorne, Confessions and Criticisms, ch. 3 "Americanism in Fiction":
Derived terms
References
- ^ “phantasmagorical, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
