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Definition: Phantasmagoric |
PhantasmagoricAdjective1. Characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions; "a great concourse of phantasmagoric shadows"- J.C.Powys; "the incongruous imagery in surreal art and literature"; ". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "phantasmagoric" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
Synonyms: PhantasmagoricSynonyms: phantasmagorical (adj), surreal (adj), surrealistic (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Phantasmagoric |
| English words defined with "phantasmagoric": Phantasmagorial, phantasmagorical ♦ surreal, surrealistic. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "phantasmagoric": Prehistoric. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | It was like nothing so much as the phantasmagoric play of the northern lights |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood. He lived in a period prehistoric, When all was absurd and phantasmagoric. Born later, when Clio, celestial recorded, Set down great events in succession and order, He surely had seen nothing droll or fortuitous In anything here but the lies that she threw at us. Orpheus Bowen |
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| "Phantasmagoric" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Phantasmagoric" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 83.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "phantasmagoric"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | fantazmagorik. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | фантасмагоричен, лъжлив (bogus, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, delusory, double, double-tongued, elusory, false, lying, mendacious, misleading, mock, perjurious, pretended, quack, shifty, spoof, tinsel, truthless, untrue, untruthful, vain), измислен (fabled, fabulous, fancy, fictional, fictitious, made up, mythical, phoney, phony, spoof). (various references) | |
Czech | fantazmagorický. (various references) | |
German | traumhaft (dreamlike, fantastic, heavenly). (various references) | |
Greek | φαντασμαγορικόσ (phantasmagorial). (various references) | |
Hungarian | csalóka (delusive, delusory, elusive, fallacious, illusive, illusory, misleading, vain), képzelet szőtte. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 変幻自在 (capable of ever-changing appearance). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | へ"'"じざい (capable of ever-changing appearance). (various references) | |
Manx | ashlinagh (romantic, visionary). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | antasmagoricphay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fantasmagórico (dreamlike, ghostly). (various references) | |
Romanian | fantasmagoric. (various references) | |
Russian | фантасмагорический. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | fantazmagorijski. (various references) | |
Spanish | fantasmagórico. (various references) | |
Swedish | fantasmagorisk. (various references) | |
Turkish | görüntü oyunu ile ilgili. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | фантасмагоричний. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "phantasmagoric": phantasmagorical. (additional references) | |
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"Phantasmagoric" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: phantasmagorie, phantasmogoric. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "phantasmagoric" (pronounced 'Phan*tas`ma*gor"ic'): Abdominothoracic, Abietic, Abietinic, Abiogenetic, Ablastemic, Abrahamic, Acerbic, Aceric, Acetonic, Achromatic, Achronic, Acidic, Acidific, Aclinic, Acologic, Acopic, Acroatic, Acrobatic, Acrocephalic, Acromonogrammatic, Acrotic, Acrylic, Actinic, Actinolitic, Actinophonic, Adelocodonic, Adenographic, Adenotomic, Adiabatic, Adiactinic, Adipic, Adipolytic, Adonic, Adriatic, Adynamic, AEolotropic, Aerobiotic, Aerodynamic, Aerolitic, AEsthesodic, Agamic, Agamogenetic, Agenesic, Agnatic, Agonic, Agonothetic, Agraphic, Agrypnotic, Albinotic, Alcaic. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-g-h-i-m-n-o-p-r-s-t" | |
-2 letters: camphorating. | |
-3 letters: machinators, morphactins, prognathism. | |
-4 letters: anamorphic, cataphoras, champaigns, charismata, chromatins, comparting, harmonicas, inamoratas, machinator, maraschino, mascaraing, monarchist, morganatic, morphactin, paranoiacs, parathions, phantasmic, pharmacist, pictograms, pragmatics, ptarmigans, sarcophagi, stomaching. | |
-5 letters: achromats, agraphias, amaranths, anaphasic, anaphoras, anaphoric, anarchism, anarchist, angiomata, animators, anthropic, antimacho, armagnacs, armonicas, aromatics, atrophias, campaigns, cantharis, cantraips, caparison, caponatas, cataphora, chairmans, champaign. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-c-g-h-i-m-n-o-p-r-s-t" | |
+2 letters: phantasmagorical. | |
+3 letters: pharmacognostical. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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