Synonyms for phantasmal
- adjective
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Adjective
1. Spectral — of or pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, a phantasm (“something seen but having no physical…
spectral, ghostly, ghostlike, apparitional, fantastic, spiritual, supernatural, imaginary, unreal, phantasmic, phantomic, wraithy, phantomlike, wraithlike, ghostish, phantomatic, phantasmatic, shadowy, phantasmatical dated
Other
phantasmalian dated rare
Definitions
- adj. 1
Of or pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, a phantasm (“something seen but having no physical reality”); imaginary, unreal. Of or pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, a phantom (“apparition or ghost”); ghostly, spectral.
Related words
- Word family
- phantasmalian phantasmatic phantasm phantasmagoria phantasmatical phantasmic phantom phantomatic
- Other spellings
- fantasmal
Example sentences
- spectral They all agreed that it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral.
- ghostly Tobias doesn't believe in ghostly hitchhikers.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| phantasmal | rising | |
| spectral | steady | |
| ghostly | rising | |
| ghostlike | rising | |
| apparitional | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 6 letters
- unreal2
- 7 letters
- shadowy3, ghostly2, wraithy
- 8 letters
- spectral2, ghostish
- 9 letters
- fantastic3, spiritual4, imaginary5, ghostlike2, phantomic
- 10 letters
- phantasmic, wraithlike
- 11 letters
- phantomlike, phantomatic
- 12 letters
- supernatural5, apparitional, phantasmatic
- 13 letters
- phantasmalian
- 14 letters
- phantasmatical
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (unreal2 = 2 syllables).