| 单词 | phantasmagoric |
| 释义 | phantasmagoric (once / 9681 pages) adj Something phantasmagoric features wild and shifting images, colorful patterns that are continually moving and changing. The Greek word phantasma, meaning "image," is the ancestor of phantasmagoric, a word you can use to describe anything so weird it doesn't seem real. In the 1960's, the word was linked with psychedelic drugs that created illusions. This word can definitely apply to a movie with bizarre images, quickly changing scenes, and colors and music that are disorienting. If a romantic comedy suddenly includes werewolves and killer robots, it just became phantasmagoric. Anything phantasmagoric is extremely weird. WORD FAMILYphantasmagoric: phantasmagoria, phantasmagorically+/phantasmagoria: phantasmagorias, phantasmagorical USAGE EXAMPLESThe “Before the Dawn” shows were phantasmagoric spectacles, involving video, choreography, lighting and puppetry. New York Times(Nov 24, 2016) Now, he’s published a new novel, “Jerusalem,” which is epic in scope and phantasmagoric to its briny core. Washington Post(Sep 12, 2016) Davis occupies centre stage in Miles Ahead, a phantasmagoric account of the trumpeter’s midlife creative crisis. The Guardian(May 25, 2016) adj characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions "a great concourse of phantasmagoric shadows"--J.C.Powys Syn phantasmagorical, surreal, surrealistic unrealistic not realistic |
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