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
  • The actors and filmmaker discuss wrapping William S. Burroughs' life into the hallucinatory dream sequence.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Watch on Deadline Set over seven hallucinatory days, Harvest tells the story of a rural village community with no name, in an undefined time and place, that begins to break at the seams after the arrival of four strangers.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of hallucinatory
Adjective
  • KoKo’s Earth Control (1928) Imaginative, sassy, surreal and nonlinear characterize films from the Fleischer Studios, which battled the Walt Disney Co. for animation supremacy during the 1920s and ’30s, with their competing styles delighting audiences and leading to many technical advancements.
    Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Her images are often surreal and focused on symbolism within nature.
    Bakr Muhammad, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of surreal
Adjective
  • In the two years leading up to the July election, everyday life in Venezuela seemed to be improving, even if only in illusory, unsustainable ways.
    Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2024
  • Trump, however, defends himself with illusory conspiracy theories, political propaganda, disinformation, misinformation, lies, and character assassination.
    Thomas Cangelosi, Hartford Courant, 15 Dec. 2024
Definition of illusory
Adjective
  • As Callas glides from a conversation with her butler to an interview with an imaginary journalist to strained rehearsals with a patient pianist, the music of her past invades the narrative — sometimes in visually fantastical ways.
    Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Likely, Russians, Chinese, Iranians, and assorted proxy accounts are already actively boosting versions of Houthi claims or other disinformation in ways that take the imaginary Houthi victories into a realm of far more insidious and closely watched disinformation networks.
    Peter Suciu, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of imaginary
Adjective
  • Both my fictional White House staff and the viewing public recognized at the time that this was not President Bartlet’s finest hour.
    Martin Sheen, TIME, 19 Dec. 2024
  • The 40-year-old Canadian actor, who saw earlier success on the CBS medical drama Code Black, eventually found his home on the Netflix series, which follows relationships, drama and romance in Virgin River, a fictional small town in Northern California.
    Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of fictional
Adjective
  • To avoid legal repercussions, the crew constructed a series of fake foam tombstones to strategically block real ones, complete with fictitious names that jokingly nodded to the cast and crew.
    Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Is Eggers’s the scariest because I’m jaded and over-exposed to gory content of all sorts—fictitious or otherwise?
    Maya Ibbitson, Architectural Digest, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of fictitious
Adjective
  • If extensive violations of a federal law made that law go away, the rules would be chimerical.
    Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The contrast is powerful, drawing attention to the chimerical nature of her quest.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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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