phantasmagorical

English

Etymology

From phantasmagoria +‎ -ical.[1]

Adjective

phantasmagorical (comparative more phantasmagorical, superlative most phantasmagorical)

  1. 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[1], 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. […]"

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ “phantasmagorical, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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