phantasmagoric

adjective

variants or phantasmagorical
Definition of phantasmagoricnext
as in hallucinatory

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for phantasmagoric
  1. hallucinatory
  2. surreal
  3. illusory
  4. imaginary
  5. fictional
  6. fictitious
  7. chimerical
  8. delusive
Adjective
  • Instead, his hallucinatory drama explores themes like Black assimilation, imperial white oppression, eroticism, and the uneasy relationship between religion and power.
    Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2024
  • There appears to be a close relationship between the brain areas responsible for veridical, imagined, and hallucinatory perception, though more data is needed.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
Definition of hallucinatory
Adjective
  • Meanwhile, Buck continues to struggle with Tommy’s revelation, leading to the episode’s most surreal scene.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2024
  • Donna has said it's been surreal getting to know Swift.
    Julie Mazziotta, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of surreal
Adjective
  • Fazio has grappled with that challenge while studying the illusory truth effect: how repeating something that is false will make a person more likely to believe it.
    ByKai Kupferschmidt, science.org, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The auction prices and the professorships and even the art hanging on the wall by now seemed illusory.
    Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2024
Definition of illusory
Adjective
  • Unable to enjoy the same freedom as past generations of kids (for example, playing on sidewalks or roaming freely in the countryside), these early 2000s kids were carving out freedom in virtual or imaginary spaces.
    Aytekin Tank, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Trump’s coattails may be imaginary at this point, but the insiders on the ground in Michigan know this reality: at this point in 2016—two weeks before Election Day—Hillary Clinton was up 8 points on Trump; Clinton lost by one-third of 1 point when the votes were actually counted.
    Philip Elliott / Detroit, TIME, 22 Oct. 2024
Definition of imaginary
Adjective
  • Set in the fictional town of Salem, Illionois, Days of Our Lives follows the lives of several families including the Bradys, the Hortons, the Carvers, the DiMeras and the Kiriakises.
    Marc Berman, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Plus, this isn't that much of a political fantasy: There's no way both the president and the vice president could be women, even in this fictional world.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2024
Definition of fictional
Adjective
  • To Kaplan, the onscreen romantic chemistry between the two fictitious lead characters, rival booksellers Joe Fox and Kathleen Kelly, drew her attention.
    David Chiu, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
  • There is a chance that generative AI can make up fictitious facts, often referred to as AI hallucinations, see my coverage at the link here.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
Definition of fictitious
Adjective
  • The contrast is powerful, drawing attention to the chimerical nature of her quest.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
  • Doing so risks indulging the chimerical hope that once liberal democracy has spread throughout the world, strategic competition will end and the United States can peacefully collaborate with like-minded states in a secure globe.
    Elbridge Colby, Foreign Affairs, 4 Sep. 2020
Definition of chimerical
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
Definition of delusive
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