phantasmically
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9.9
- adverb
- /fænˈtæzmɪkli/
- Literature
- As the sun set, the landscape looked phantasmically beautiful, with shadows casting eerie shapes.
Examples
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The painting depicted a scene that glimmered phantasmically, evoking a sense of wonder and mystery.
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Light danced phantasmically as the aurora borealis flashed across old faces, wattled necks, and scraggly limbs.
Fiction book (1996) -
The images from my dream appeared phantasmically, as if they were just figments of my imagination.
Synonyms
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6.8
In a strange and frightening way
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7.0
In a strange, frightening way that feels like a ghost
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7.0
In a strange way that feels like a dream
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7.8
Makes something seem strange and dreamlike
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9.6
In a way that looks or sounds like a ghost
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7.7
Happens only in your mind
Antonyms
How Dreamlike
Surface Forms
Morphology
phantasmically = phantasmic (transparent) = phantasm + ic + ally
The adverb is productively formed from the adjective 'phantasmic' by adding the adverbial suffix '-ally', giving a predictable 'in a phantom-like way'.
Etymology
Phantasmically comes from phantasm (the same root as phantom), a word for a 'ghost' or an 'illusion'. So, to do something phantasmically is to do it as if it were 'unreal' or like a 'dream'.